Title: Culture writing : literature and anthropology in the midcentury Atlantic world /
Authors: Watson, Tim, 1965-
Year: 2018
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.; Literature and anthropology; Anthropology in literature.; Ethnology in literature.; Culture in literature.; Literature, Modern History and criticism; Anthropologists' writings History and criticism.; Anthropologists' writings; Anthropology in literature.; Culture in literature.; Ethnology in literature.; Literature and anthropology; Literature, Modern
Abstract: "Culture Writing argues that the period of decolonization witnessed dynamic exchanges between writers and anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic. The book analyzes writers who engaged professionally with anthropology--Barbara Pym, Ursula Le Guin, Saul Bellow, Édouard Glissant--and anthropologists who adopted literary forms--Laura Bohannan, Michel Leiris, and Claude Lévi-Strauss"--
Contents: Introduction: culture writing -- The anglophone Atlantic world. "Jumble sales are the same the world over": Barbara Pym and transatlantic anthropology; The sun also sets: anthropology at the end of empire in Ursula le Guin and Laura Bohannan; "Every guy has his own Africa": development and anthropology in Saul Bellow and Bessie Head -- The francophone Atlantic world. "L'ethnologue de soi-même": Édouard Glissant and francophone anthropology; Cultures in contact: memoir and ethnography in Michel Leiris -- Afterword: postcolonial anthropological literature: Amitav Ghosh and Erna Brodber.