Other Argonauts: Ethnographers Before Malinowski (EASA) (EASA, #44)

Federico Delgado Rosa (Editor), Han F Vermeulen (Editor), and Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Foreword)

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At a time when anthropologists claim new ethnographic experiences, a second chance should be given to older ethnographic texts. Recovering monographs produced c.1870-1922 that dispute canonic models of writing culture, the present volume challenges the assumption that fieldwork carried out within a single context by a single individual, with its corresponding output, the monograph, was a twentieth-century invention. Instead of reproducing the hasty judgment that earlier ethnographies were miscellaneous compilations of odds and ends, we should reassess them with an open mind, each account containing layers of meaning, style, and content that inspire new readings.
  • ISBN13 9781800735316
  • Publish Date 1 June 2022
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Berghahn Books