Can I read Observer and observed: Collaboration between literature and anthropology on EtoBox?

Observer and observed: Collaboration between literature and anthropology by David E. Smith is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Observer and observed: Collaboration between literature and anthropology about?

Bringing together the theories and writings of literature and anthropology teaches students the vital importance of points of view in all texts. bser ver and bser ved: Collaboration Between Literature and Anthropology ## David E. Smith Over the past six years, 1 have worked with Professor Barbara Yngvesson, a cultural anthropologist colleague at Hampshire, to teach a course that joins the literatures and analytical approaches of anthropology with certain texts in English, American, and European literature and modem criticism. In particular, we explore questions of mutual concern to cuitural anthropologists and literary critics: problems of the relationship of observer to observed, of author to text, and of audience or reader to text; problems arising from the presumed perspective of an ethnographer or narrator; problems connected with the analysis of literary structure, narration, and strategies; and problems having to do with, on the one hand, the nature of anthropological understanding and, on the other, literary analysis and theory. We approach these questions in both fields from the point of view embodied in the analysis of a text: What kind of text is assumed, how is it produc

Who reads Observer and observed: Collaboration between literature and anthropology?

Author

David E. Smith

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley (ISSN 0271-0633)

Published

1989

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences