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Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions = Southern Crossings /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions/ by Oscar Hemer.
Reminder of title:	Southern Crossings /
Author:	Hemer, Oscar.
Description:	XV, 220 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Ethnology. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34925-7
ISBN:	9783030349257

Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions = Southern Crossings /
Hemer, Oscar.

Contaminations and Ethnographic FictionsSouthern Crossings /[electronic resource] :by Oscar Hemer. - 1st ed. 2020. - XV, 220 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.online resource. - Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. - Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology.

"The form that Oscar Hemer has created in Cape Calypso allows a multi-perspectival treatment of the subject—a great improvement on linear narrative." —J.M. Coetzee, Professor of Literature, University of Adelaide, Australia, and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature 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.

ISBN: 9783030349257

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-34925-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

558761
Ethnology.

LC Class. No.: GN301-674

Dewey Class. No.: 306

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