Fictionalizing Anthropology McLean Stuart J. Paperback
Fictionalizing Anthropology McLean Stuart J. Paperback What might become of anthropology if it were to suspend its sometime claims to be a social science? Stuart McLean claims that anthropology…
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Fictionalizing Anthropology McLean Stuart J. Paperback
What might become of anthropology if it were to suspend its sometime claims to be a social science? Stuart McLean claims that anthropology stands to learn most from art and literature not as "evidence" to support explanations based on an appeal to social context or history but as modes of engagement with the materiality of expressive media--including language--that always retain the capacity to disrupt or exceed the human projects enacted through them.At once comparative in scope and ethnographically informed, Fictionalizing Anthropology draws on an eclectic range of sources, including ancient Mesopotamian myth, Norse saga literature, Hesiod, Lucretius, Joyce, What if it were to turn instead to exploring its affinities with art and literature as a mode of engaged creative practice carried forward in a world heterogeneously composed of humans and other than humans?