EAN: 9783030349271

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN LITERARY ANTHROPOLOGY CON...

In an unusual merging of academic and literary practices  this volume attempts to identify a
form (or forms) that is congenial with the subject of interrogation: the world in transition 
with South Africa as the main focal point. Approaching anthropology from the position of the
literary writer  Oscar Hemer here takes the reader through a kaleidoscope of perspectives-a
stream-of-consciousness understanding of writing the city of Johannesburg  embedding
ethnography in subjectivity  a challenge to binaries both temporal and gendered in examining
the growth of the IT metropolis Bangalore to a combusting mega-city  an auto-ethnographic
interweaving of fictional reportage with a close-reading of anthropological and philosophical
treatises  including Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger and Edouard Glissant's Poetics of
Relation  among others-to interrogate themes of transition  identity  purity and variation in
the Western Cape. As the form transcends boundaries to create a methodological hybrid 
creolization comes to the fore as a theoretical concept and as cultural practice.

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