Ethnographica Moralia : Experiments in Interpretive Anthropology /

Panourgia and Marcus bring together anthropologists working in various parts of the world (Greece, Bali, Taiwan, the United States) with classicists, historians, and scholars in cultural studies. The volume takes into account global realities such as 9/11 and the opening of the Cypriot Green Line an...

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Corporate Author: Kentron Pyrēnikon Ereunōn "Dēmokritos." Center for Neohellenic Research
Other Authors: Marcus, George E., Panourgiá, Neni, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2008.
Edition:First Edition
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Neni Panourgiá and George E. Marcus
  • Interview with Clifford Geertz / Neni Panourgiá and Pavlos Kavouras
  • Contemporary fieldwork aesthetics in art and anthropology : experiments in collaboration and intervention / George E. Marcus
  • Myth, performance, poetics : the gaze from classics / Richard P. Martin
  • The birth of anthropology out of a pause on Pausanias : Frazer's travel-translations reinterrupted and resumed / James A. Boon
  • Anamneses of a pestilent infant : the enigma of monstrosity, or beyond Oedipus / Athena Athanasiou
  • Fragments of Oedipus : anthropology at the edges of history / Neni Panourgiá
  • Carnal hermeneutics : from "Concepts" and "Circles" to "Dispositions" and "Suspense" / Eleni Papagaroufali
  • "Real anthropology" and other nostalgias / Kath Weston
  • Canonical and anticanonical histories / Antonis Liakos
  • Anthropology at the French National Assembly : the semiotic aspects of a political institution / Marc Abeles
  • "Life is dead here" : sensing the political in "no man's land" / Yael Navaro-Yashin
  • Text and transnational subjectification : media's challenge to anthropology / Louisa Schein
  • Afterword : the ethnographer's "gaze" : some notes on visuality and its relation to the reflexive metalanguage of anthropology / Maria Kakavoulia.