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Far Afield: French Anthropology between Science and Literature

Anthropology has lengthy had a vexed courting 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 booklet, 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 background that finds how a poem created the realm we are living in this day. It used to be the forerunner of our electronic age, improbably a French poem a few shipwreck released in 1897 that, with its mind-bending probabilities of being learn up and down, from side to side, even sideways, introduced modernism.

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