Anthropological Poetics

Ivan Brady is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York College in Oswego.

• Chapter 1 Harmony and Argument: Bringing Forth the Artful Science Chapter 2 Poetics and the Recentering of Anthropology Chapter 3 Telling Tales of the South Pacific Chapter 4 The Trickster Unmasked: Anthropology and the Imagination Chapter 5 "Parsifal" And Semiotic Structuralism Chapter 6 The Goddess as Muse Chapter 7 Poetry as Self-Creation Chapter 8 Dialogic Narration and the Paradoxes of Masada Chapter 9 Point of View in Anthropological Discourse: The Ethnographer as Gilgamesh Chapter 10 In Search of Experience: The Anthropological Poetics of Stanley Diamond Chapter 11 On the Language of Benjamin Lee Whorf Chapter 12 Ethnographic Genre and Poetic Voice Chapter 13 Reversal Chapter 14 The Speaker of Tales Has More than One String to Play On

...a milestone in the coming of age of interpretive anthropology. -- William L. Rodman, McMaster University ^RAnthropological Poetics^I deserves a hearty welcome. It brings ethno-poetics back home. Paul Rabinow This is the most important collection from within anthropology to address recent efforts to understand the relationship between anthropology, literature, and romanticism... -- George E. Marcus, Rice University This volume, which is considerably enriched by Ivan Brady's concise and perceptive introductions to each essay, will make a lasting contribution to anthropology; it may enable us to open our senses to the world and hear the confounding pulse of life that beats so strongly in the world. American Anthropologist These essays provide an eloquent demonstration that there is more than one way to say anthropology and that some things said poetically about anthropological experience can't be said with equal effectiveness any other way. Wisconsin Bookwatch This is a very interesting collection of essays. It affords both the specialist and the outsider a fascinating overview of the efforts of a discipline. Comparative Literature