By Vincent Debaene
Anthropology has lengthy had a vexed dating with literature, and nowhere has this been extra acutely felt than in France, the place such a lot ethnographers, upon strolling back from the sector, write no longer one publication, yet : a systematic monograph and a literary account. In Far Afield—brought to English-language readers right here for the 1st time—Vincent Debaene puzzles out this phenomenon, tracing the contours of anthropology and literature’s mutual fascination and the floor upon which they meet within the works of thinkers from Marcel Mauss and Georges Bataille to Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes.
the connection among anthropology and literature in France is one in every of cautious interest. Literary writers are cautious approximately anthropologists’ medical austerity yet intrigued via the items they gather and the problems they elevate, whereas anthropologists declare to be scientists yet whilst are deeply occupied with writing and representational practices. Debaene elucidates the richness that this interest fosters and the varied diversity of writings it has produced, from Proustian memoirs to proto-surrealist diaries. in any case he bargains a desirable highbrow historical past, person who is itself positioned accurately the place technology and literature meet.
the connection among anthropology and literature in France is one in every of cautious interest. Literary writers are cautious approximately anthropologists’ medical austerity yet intrigued via the items they gather and the problems they elevate, whereas anthropologists declare to be scientists yet whilst are deeply occupied with writing and representational practices. Debaene elucidates the richness that this interest fosters and the varied diversity of writings it has produced, from Proustian memoirs to proto-surrealist diaries. in any case he bargains a desirable highbrow historical past, person who is itself positioned accurately the place technology and literature meet.
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