Michel Leiris: The Toll of Realist Ethnographic Writing (Part 2)
Leiris' true to life description is another form of literary release even as it drifts toward senselessness
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Rediscovering the Great Books in Anthropology and its insights on the human condition.
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Lévi‑Strauss: Time and the Distant Gaze in Ethnographic Writing (Part 1)
Lévi‑Strauss's literary style emerges from a sensibility shaped by the longue durée
Departures: Leiris & Lévi‑Strauss and the Truth in Ethnographic Writing
At the beginning of Leiris’s Dakar–Djibouti mission and Lévi‑Strauss’s Brazil journey, the two ethnographers begin to shape the French contribution to writing culture
Re-Enchanting Life and Anthropology
A Catholic Anthropologist's reflection after three years with David Graeber (Part 2)
David Graeber and I: The Return of the Sacred to Anthropological Thought
Redemption, Anti-Reductionism, and Catholic Reversion: the vistas seen anew through anthropology
The Anthropologists as Naturalists
Returning to theoretical humility and wonder in the craft of ethnography
Fieldwork in the Shadow of Empire: Leiris's Africa and Levi-Strauss' Brazil
Rather than a flat colonialism analysis, these historical works reveal the chaos of the world order in between the First and the Second World Wars and the ensuing fault lines in anthropology.
Postscript: Marcel Griaule and the Nature of Evidence in Anthropology
Is it a battle for trust or truth in anthropology?
The Hippopotamus and The Departure: Two Threshold Moments in Abyssinia
A spiritual revelation in a river; Cavalry and near death across the desert before the final triumph and resurrection
A Grisly Execution in Abyssinia (Part 2)
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