ABSTRACT
This collection suggests that the disciplines of literature and anthropology are not static entities but instead fluid sites of shifting cultural currents and academic interests. The essays conclude that the origins, sources, and intersections of the two disciplines are constantly being revised, and reconceived, leading to new possibilities of understanding texts.
The authors address the ways in which the language of social science fuses with that of the literary imagination. The essays fit excellently with the current interest in interdisciplinary studies and challenge students to see texts as parts of a larger global and cultural matrix.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART I Anthropo logy and l i terature as ethnography
chapter 1|12 pages
The ethnographic novel: finding the insider’s voice JANET TALLMA N
chapter 2|20 pages
“Splendid disciplines”: American Indian women’s ethnographic literature
chapter 3|12 pages
A woman’s work is never done
part |2 pages
PART I I Anthropo logy, r i tua l and l i terature
chapter 4|12 pages
Rituals to cope with change in women’s lives: Judith Minty’s Dancing the Fault
chapter 6|17 pages
“And love thee after”: necrophilia on the Jacobean stage RICHARD W. GRINNEL L
part |2 pages
PART III Anthropo logy and l i terature as t rave logue