Ethnographica moralia
Subtitle: experiments in interpretive anthropology
By: edited by Neni Panourgiá, George E. Marcus.
Contributors: Panourgia, E. Neni K. 1958-; Marcus, George E.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780823228867; 9780823228874
Subjects: Anthropology -- Philosophy; Anthropology -- Political aspects; Art and anthropology; Literature and anthropology
Description: Clifford Geertz, in his 1973 'Inspection of Cultures', brought about an epistemological revolution. This book maps the circuits of cross-fertilisations among disciplines in the humanities and social sciences that have developed from Geertz's 'interpretive turn'.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Neni Panourgiá and George E. Marcus; title: Interview with Clifford Geertz / Neni Panourgiá and Pavlos Kavouras; title: Contemporary fieldwork aesthetics in art and anthropology : experiments in collaboration and intervention / George E. Marcus; title: Myth, performance, poetics : the gaze from classics / Richard P. Martin; title: The birth of anthropology out of a pause on Pausanias : Frazer's travel-translations : reinterrupted and resumed / James A. Boon; title: Anamneses of a pestilent infant : the enigma of monstrosity, or beyond Oedipus / Athena Athanasiou; title: Fragments of Oedipus : anthropology at the edges of history / Neni Panourgiá; title: Carnal hermeneutics : from "Concepts" and "Circles" to "Dispositions" and "Suspense" / Eleni Papagaroufali; title: "Real anthropology" and other nostalgias / Kath Weston; title: Canonical and anticanonical histories / Antonis Liakos; title: Anthropology at the French National Assembly : the semiotic aspects of a political institution / Marc Abélès; title: "Life is dead here" : sensing the political in "no man's land" / Yael Navaro-Yashin; title: Text and transnational subjectification : media's challenge to anthropology / Louisa Schein; title: Afterword : the ethnographer's "gaze" : some notes on visuality and its relation to the reflexive : metalanguage of anthropology / Maria Kakavoulia.