Anthropology and literature

Authors

  • Vincent Debaene Université de Genève

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17184/eac.anthropen.090

Keywords:

poetry, fiction, postmodernism, ethnography, writing, speeches

Abstract

There are three ways to illustrate literature and anthropology: anthropological studies that take literature as the object; epistemological or historical reflections that question the relationship between literature and anthropology, which are viewed as a discourse; and research that seek anthropological knowledge in works considered as literary.

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Published

2019-04-03