Time at Darwin's Reef

Poetic Explorations in Anthropology and History

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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The Time at Darwin's Reef is primarily a book of storytelling through mixed genres—verse, prose, and painting. Brady's work is designed to draw out key dimensions of the poetics of anthropology and history embedded in creative writing—in the mix and on the margins of verse and prose, painting and writing, fiction and fact—to revisit the sometimes academically resistant idea that there is more than one way to say (and therefore to see) things. This is a poetic exploration of themes encountered in the academy's attempts to explicate reality, including travel through various cultures, times, and circumstances. The goal of this unique book is both analytic and aesthetic. It is also humanistic: a commentary on the human condition, of being and not being in a cross-cultural world. It will be of immediate interest to poets and writers who wish to explore anthropological poetics, to ethnographers and teachers of ethnographic method, and to instructors and students in creative and experimental writing.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2003-01-21
Mått143 x 212 x 9 mm
Vikt231 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEthnographic Alternatives
Antal sidor161
FörlagAltaMira Press
ISBN9780759103368

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Ivan Brady is Distinguished Teaching Professor and chair of anthropology at the State University of New York at Oswego. A former president of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology, his special interests include Mexican and Pacific Island ethnography, ethnopoetics, semiotics, and the philosophy of science. He is the editor of Anthropological Poetics (1991), and his poetry has appeared in numerous books and journals.

Chapter 1 Preface Part 2 I. Gateway Chapter 3 Alone on the Bayou Chapter 4 Sea Cream Chapter 5 Escultura Coral (Watercolor) Chapter 6 Diving in Desecheo Part 7 II. Mythics Chapter 8 They Knew Places Where Chapter 9 Fale Tapu Chapter 10 The Spring Chapter 11 Fire Knees (Or, Not Eating Raoul) Chapter 12 Gilbertese Warrior Chapter 13 When You Were Here Chapter 14 Foot Queries Chapter 15 Predator Chapter 16 Jaguar Chapter 17 Spot of the Cat Chapter 18 Archaeology? Chapter 19 Yellowmouth Moon Chapter 20 Some Moon (Watercolor) Chapter 21 Translated Text Chapter 22 Wiccan Moon Water Chapter 23 Sulphur Chapter 24 A Gift of the Journey Part 25 III. History in Pieces Chapter 26 The Passing of Monica Harmon Chapter 27 Midnight Swim Chapter 28 Letter from Laurie Chapter 29 Island Chains Chapter 30 The Equation Chapter 31 Journal Entry Chapter 32 Hukulika Island Chapter 33 Proem for the Queen of Spain Chapter 34 Para Donde Vas Chapter 35 Sunstone (Watercolor) Chapter 36 Shipwreck Chapter 37 Dead Painting Part 38 IV. Shades of Science Chapter 39 Darwin's Reef (Watercolor) Chapter 40 The Time at Darwin's Reef Chapter 41 Dolphins in the Desert Chapter 42 The Cage of Air Chapter 43 The Shape of Time Chapter 44 Fresh Wind Chapter 45 Cannibal-ism Chapter 46 Behaviorism Chapter 47 Memory Sweep Part 48 V. Self and Other Chapter 49 Port of Call Chapter 50 Resistance Failed Chapter 51 Fieldwork Pastiche Chapter 52 Border Work Chapter 53 Combate Beach Chapter 54 Pueblo Canyon Chapter 55 Dance Plan (Watercolor) Chapter 56 Bones of the Moon Chapter 57 The Visitor Chapter 58 Waterfront Dream Part 59 VI. Semiotica Chapter 60 Tattoo Chapter 61 Mojave Codes Chapter 62 Tahitian Flower Chapter 63 Tramp Steamer Chapter 64 Festival Chapter 65 Nosferatu Rising Chapter 66 Killing Death Chapter 67 My Friend Henry Chapter 68 St. Patrick's Day Chapter 69 Show Me a Sign Chapter 70 Torn Shawl Chapter 71 Pipers Chapter 72 Deep Ideas Part 73 The Place List Part 74 The Date List Part 75 Notes on the Author / Notes on the Artist

As good and compelling as many of the individual pieces that make up this collection are, I am most impressed by the way it both unfolds and achieves coherence as a work of anthropology. Here a skillful poetics of text-making builds context as certain and as powerfully as any classic ethnography, while yet being a virtuoso performance of all of those tendencies in the aftermath of the 1980s 'Writing Culture' critique that have come to define the preoccupations of anthropology.