Fiction, Anthropology and
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19019294 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oscar Hemer (Malmö University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 1-8 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2506 |
| OpenAlex | W4200273980 |
| ISBN | 9780470657225 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Anthropology's interest in fiction as method, and as ethnographic data, can be traced to the literary turn in the 1980s, although the close relation between anthropology and literature goes back to some of the early anthropologists who were also excellent authors. The new orientation, sparked by James Clifford and George Marcus's seminal anthology Writing Culture , essentially entailed the unsettling of the former balance, in classical ethnography, between the “ethnographic self” and the “personal self,” enabling a plurivocality in ethnography that resembles the shifting subject positions of a novel. From its original focus on the writing process and as an approach to literary methods and formats, literary anthropology has grown and diversified to also encompass the reading of literary texts, including fiction. A parallel tradition in visual anthropology includes the cross‐genre ethnofiction (Jean Rouch) and the use of fictional staging as a method. Although blurred, the border between fiction and ethnography remains asserted
Art · Ethnography · Linguistics · Literature · Sociology · Visual anthropology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |