Far Afield电子书

Cover

Copyright

Title Page

Contents

Preface to the English Edition

Introduction

The Ethnographer’s Two Books

Science and Literature: A Genealogy

I. Ethnography in the Eyes of Literature

1. The Birth of a Discipline

Breaks and Discontinuities

Fieldwork

Ethnography’s Prestige

2. The French Exception

The Speculative Origins of French Ethnography

“Everything involving the exercise of the mind”

Malinowski: A Counterexample

3. Rhetoric, the Document, and Atmosphere

From the Science of Customs to Total Social Facts

Evocative Documents

The Supplement to the Ethnographer’s Expedition

The Impossible Return to Belles Lettres

The Human Document and the Living Museum

4. “A literature that is not meaningless like our own”

“Some of the innocent flavor of the original text”

L’Île de Pâques: 1941, 1951

Mauss, Fieldwork, and Ethnographic Documents

5. The Lost Unity of Heart and Mind

The Philosophical Voyage as Paradise Lost

From the Enlightenment to the Renaissance

A “New Humanism”

II. L’Adieu au voyage

6. “Ceci n’est pas un voyage”

Travel: Polemics, Prestige, and Legitimacy

The Ethnographer, the Adventurer, and the Tourist

Spatializing Cultural Difference

L’Afrique fantôme and Tristes Tropiques: Impossible Intimacy

“This is not travel writing”

7. Les Flambeurs d’hommes: The Ethiopian Chronicles of Marcel Griaule

The Ethnographer and the Littérateur

The Inadequacies of the Ethnographic Document

The Impossible Evocative Document

Excursus: Sociology and Cruelty

Ethnography and Cultural Knowledge

8. L’Afrique fantôme: Leiris and the “Living Document”

The Impossible Foreword

Reading L’Afrique fantôme

From Communion to Representation

Theatricality and the Family

Living Document, “Phantom” Africa

9. Tristes Tropiques: The Search for Correspondence and the Logic of the Sensible

“The boat entered the harbor at 5:30 in the morning”

From Conrad to Proust

From the Deserts of Memory to the Science of the Concrete

History, Entropy, “Entropology”

“Doorways that reveal other worlds and other times”

III. Literature in the Eyes of Ethnography

10. Literature, Letters, and the Social Sciences

Lanson, 1895: The Dispossession of the Artist by the Scientist

The Man of Letters and the Social Division of Labor

Humanities, Sciences, and Counterrevolutionary Thought

Lanson, 1904: From Literature to Science

11. Disputes over Territory

Ramon Fernandez, 1935: A Conversation between the Scientist and the Essayist

Breton, 1948–1966: “You will never really know the Mayas”

Bataille, Barthes, Blanchot, 1956: The Reception of Tristes Tropiques

12. 1955–1970: A New Deal

The End of the Documentary Paradigm

Ethnography and Literature in the “Real World”

(Post)colonial Literature and the Ethnographic

The “Terre humaine” Series: Literature from Within and Without

Barthes and “Structures”

Barthes, 1967: From Science to Literature

Conclusion

Literature

Ethnography

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index