Novel Approaches to Anthropology: Contributions to Literary Anthropology - Softcover

 
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Synopsis

This volume of interdisciplinary essays reflect current contributions to literary anthropology. Novel Approaches to Anthropology: Contributions to Literary Anthropology showcases the myriad ways that anthropologists bring their disciplinary perspectives, theories, concepts, and pedagogical strategies to interpreting fiction and travel writing written in the past and present. The authors integrate insights from the reflexive deconstructive turn in anthropology and from critical Marxist and feminist approaches that ground interpretation in the political, economic, and social constraints and experiences of everyday life. The contributors share the view that fiction, like all artistic expression, is rooted in specific historical and cultural contexts. Literature, like all artistic expression, stimulates a critical imagination by allowing readers to take a fresh look at their own society and culture.

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About the Author

Helena Wulff is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research is in literary anthropology, currently focused on migrant writing in Sweden. Her publications include 11 books and (co)edited volumes, as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. Among her publications are The Anthropologist as Writer: Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century (2017) and Rhythms of Writing: An Anthropology of Irish Literature (Bloomsbury, 2019).

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ISBN 10:  0739175025 ISBN 13:  9780739175026
Publisher: Lexington Books, 2013
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