Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British NovelsPrinceton University Press, 2009 M01 10 - 336 páginas This book gives an ambitious revisionist account of the nineteenth-century British novel and its role in the complex historical process that ultimately gave rise to modern anthropology's concept of culture and its accredited researcher, the Participant Observer. Buzard reads the great nineteenth-century novels of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and others as "metropolitan autoethnographies" that began to exercise and test the ethnographic imagination decades in advance of formal modern ethnography--and that did so while focusing on Western European rather than on distant Oriental subjects. |
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... thought, occupied an uncertain terrain. On the one hand, its usefulness and even indispensability were championed in a series of ambitious studies of international economic and political relations, including such works as Samuel P ...
... thought” (Herbert 253). Like nationalism, as Benedict Anderson has famously handled it, culture, too, is not so much a kind of thought as a thing to think with, a “cultural artefact” in its own right, or what Kenneth Burke called a ...
... thought'”—incapable, in other words, of thinking themselves “outside” the metaphorical “mental space” of their own culture to see it as historically produced and contingent rather than as natural or proper for all humankind.49 ...
... thought, had devoted its energy to the task of diverting social-scientific attention from itself, “export[ing] its totalizations, on to its subject peoples. There, and there only, could it afford scientific study of the social whole ...
... thought-world and into that of his subjects. After all, the “main distinctive characteristic” of cultural anthropology was that it obliged fieldworkers to “go and live with the people under investigation.”22 In crossing the boundary ...
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BRITISH FICTIONS OF AUTOETHNOGRAPHY CIRCA 1815 AND 1851 | 61 |
CHARLOTTE BRONTËS ENGLISH BOOKS | 157 |
AROUND AND AFTER 1860 | 277 |
Index | 315 |
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