Far Afield: French Anthropology between Science and Literature
Autor Vincent Debaene Traducere de Justin Izzoen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 apr 2014
Anthropology has long had a vexed relationship with literature, and nowhere has this been more acutely felt than in France, where most ethnographers, upon returning from the field, write not one book, but two: a scientific monograph and a literary account. In Far Afield—brought to English-language readers here for the first time—Vincent Debaene puzzles out this phenomenon, tracing the contours of anthropology and literature’s mutual fascination and the ground upon which they meet in the works of thinkers from Marcel Mauss and Georges Bataille to Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes.
The relationship between anthropology and literature in France is one of careful curiosity. Literary writers are wary about anthropologists’ scientific austerity but intrigued by the objects they collect and the issues they raise, while anthropologists claim to be scientists but at the same time are deeply concerned with writing and representational practices. Debaene elucidates the richness that this curiosity fosters and the diverse range of writings it has produced, from Proustian memoirs to proto-surrealist diaries. In the end he offers a fascinating intellectual history, one that is itself located precisely where science and literature meet.
The relationship between anthropology and literature in France is one of careful curiosity. Literary writers are wary about anthropologists’ scientific austerity but intrigued by the objects they collect and the issues they raise, while anthropologists claim to be scientists but at the same time are deeply concerned with writing and representational practices. Debaene elucidates the richness that this curiosity fosters and the diverse range of writings it has produced, from Proustian memoirs to proto-surrealist diaries. In the end he offers a fascinating intellectual history, one that is itself located precisely where science and literature meet.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226107066
ISBN-10: 022610706X
Pagini: 424
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 022610706X
Pagini: 424
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
Vincent Debaene is associate professor of French at Columbia University. He is the critical editor of the Pléiade edition of the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss and coauthor of Claude Lévi-Strauss: L’Homme au Regard Éloigné. Justin Izzo is assistant professor of French Studies at Brown University.
Cuprins
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
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
Recenzii
“Brilliant, demanding book. . . . deeply researched. . . . beautifully translated.”
"Far Afield is a fascinating enterprise placing ethnography at the core of last century’s literary creation."
“A dazzling study. . . . it cannot be confined to literary analysis. If it is read with so much pleasure, it is precisely because as it delves into the heart of these works, far from sinking into sterile dissection, it offers on the contrary the opportunity for an ambitious reflection on the respective histories of anthropology and literature, and on the complex links woven over time between the two disciplines.”