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Duke University Press, Durham, [England] ;
Crumpled Paper Boat is an exploration of the possibilities and limits of a literary anthropology that bends the conventions of ethnographic voice and form to engage with writing as a material practice rather than a transparent representational medium...
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Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen, Bibliothek Nürtingen
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Crumpled Paper Boat is an exploration of the possibilities and limits of a literary anthropology that bends the conventions of ethnographic voice and form to engage with writing as a material practice rather than a transparent representational medium Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction: Archipelagos, a Voyage in Writing -- 1. The Ambivalent Archive -- 2. Writing with Care -- 3. After the Fact: The Question of Fidelity in Ethnographic Writing -- 4. Walking and Writing -- 5. Anthropoetry -- 6. Poetry, Uncertainty, and Opacity -- 7. Taʿbīr: Ethnography of the Imaginal -- 8. Writing through Intercessors -- 9. Desire in Cinema -- 10. Flows and Interruptions, or, So Much for Full Stops -- 11. Denial: A Visit in Four Ethnographic Fictions -- 12. Ethnography and Fiction -- 13. SEA -- 14. Writing Otherwise -- 15. Origami Conjecture for a Bembé -- 16. Ethnographic Excess -- 17. Conversations with a Hunter -- 18. On Writing and Surviving -- 19. A Proper Message -- 20. Fidelity and Invention -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
