Ivan Brady

The Time at Darwin's Reef (eBook, PDF)

Poetic Explorations in Anthropology and History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 161
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216328162
• Artikelnr.: 75138892

Autorenporträt

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.