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Far Afield: French Anthropology between Science and Literature

Anthropology has lengthy had a vexed dating with literature, and nowhere has this been extra acutely felt than in France, the place so much ethnographers, upon getting back from the sector, write no longer one ebook, 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.

One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern

Within the culture of The Swerve comes this exciting, detective-like paintings of literary historical past that finds how a poem created the area we are living in this present day. It was once the forerunner of our electronic age, improbably a French poem a couple of shipwreck released in 1897 that, with its mind-bending chances of being learn up and down, from side to side, even sideways, introduced modernism.

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