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Verging on Extra-Vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts ....
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780691016313
- Subject Area
- Social Science
- Publication Name
- Verging on Extra-Vagance : Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts ... Showbiz
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Weight
- 19 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691016313
ISBN-13
9780691016313
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1164631
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Publication Name
Verging on Extra-Vagance : Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts ... Showbiz
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Subject
Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
98-035712
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"James Boon is one of this country's most exciting theorists and practitioners of cultural comparativism. The book is an exemplary work on, and of, cultural translation and the hazards thereof. It is marvelously conceived, brilliantly executed, and almost astonishing in the range of its erudition." --Marc Manganaro, Rutgers University
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
301/.01
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Preface: AnThoreaupology: An Invitation Rehearsals 3 An Endlessly Extra-Vagant Scholar: Kenneth Burke 3 A Similar Genre: Opera 9 Plus Melville, Cavell, Commodity-Life; Showbiz 14 Pt. 1 Rituals, Rereading, Rhetorical Turns 21 Ch. 1 Re Menses: Rereading Ruth Benedict, Ultraobjectively 23 Ch. 2 Of Foreskins: (Un)Circumcision, Religious Histories, Difficult Description (Montaigne/Remondino) 43 Ch. 3 About a Footnote: Between-the-Wars Bali: Its Relics Regained 73 Interlude: Essay-etudes and Tristimania 97 Pt. 2 Multimediations: Coincidence, Memory, Magics 101 Ch. 4 Cosmopolitan Moments: As-if Confessions of an Ethnographer-Tourist (Echoey "Cosmomes") 103 Ch. 5 Why Museums Make Me Sad (Eccentric Musings) 124 Ch. 6 Litterytoor 'n' Anthropolygee: An Experimental Wedding of Incongruous Styles from Mark Twain and Marcel Mauss 143 Pt. 3 Cross-over Studies, Seriocomic Critique 167 A Little Polemic, Quizzically 169 Ch. 7 Against Coping Across Cultures: Self-help Semiotics Rebuffed 176 Ch. 8 Errant Anthropology, with Apologies to Chaucer 191 Ch. 9 Margins and Hierarchies and Rhetorics That Subjugate 198 Ch. 10 Evermore Derrida, Always the Same (What Gives?) 211 Ch. 11 Taking Torgovnick as She Takes Others 221 Ch. 12 Rerun (1980s): Mary Douglas's Grid/Group Grilled 230 Ch. 13 Update (1990s): Coca-Cola Consumes Baudrillard, and a Balinese (Putu) Consumes Coca-Cola 249 Encores and Envoi: Burke, Cavell, etc., Unforgotten 263 Acknowledgments and Credits 279 Notes 283 References 315 Index 357
Synopsis
In this book, James Boon ranges through history and around the globe in a series of provocative reflections on the limitations, attractions, and ambiguities of cultural interpretation., In this book, James Boon ranges through history and around the globe in a series of provocative reflections on the limitations, attractions, and ambiguities of cultural interpretation. The book reflects the unusual keyword of its title, extra-vagance, a term Thoreau used to refer to thought that skirts traditional boundaries. Boon follows Thoreau's lead by broaching subjects as diverse as Balinese ritual, Montaigne, Chaucer, Tarzan, Perry Mason, opera, and the ideas of Jacques Derrida, Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Burke, and Mary Douglas. He makes creative and often playful leaps among eclectic texts and rituals that do not hold single, fixed meanings, but numerous, changing, and exceedingly specific ones. Boon opens by exploring links between ritual and reading, focusing on commentaries about the seclusion of menstruating women in Native American culture, trance dances in Bali, and circumcision (or lack of it) in contrasting religions. He considers the ironies of "first-person ethnography" by telling stories from his own fieldwork, reflecting on ethnological museums, and making seriocomic connections between Mark Twain and Marcel Mauss. In expansive discussions that touch on Manhattan and Sri Lanka, the Louvre and the "World of Coca-Cola" museum, willfully obscure academic theory and shamelessly commercial show business, Boon underlines the inadequacies of simple ideologies and pat generalizations. The book is a profound and eloquent exploration of cultural comparison by one of America's most original and innovative anthropologists., In this book, James Boon ranges through history and around the globe in a series of provocative reflections on the limitations, attractions, and ambiguities of cultural interpretation. The book reflects the unusual keyword of its title, extra-vagance, a term Thoreau used to refer to thought that skirts traditional boundaries. Boon follows Thoreau's lead by broaching subjects as diverse as Balinese ritual, Montaigne, Chaucer, Tarzan, Perry Mason, opera, and the ideas of Jacques Derrida, Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Burke, and Mary Douglas. He makes creative and often playful leaps among eclectic texts and rituals that do not hold single, fixed meanings, but numerous, changing, and exceedingly specific ones. Boon opens by exploring links between ritual and reading, focusing on commentaries about the seclusion of menstruating women in Native American culture, trance dances in Bali, and circumcision (or lack of it) in contrasting religions. He considers the ironies of "first-person ethnography" by telling stories from his own fieldwork, reflecting on ethnological museums, and making seriocomic connections between Mark Twain and Marcel Mauss.In expansive discussions that touch on Manhattan and Sri Lanka, the Louvre and the "World of Coca-Cola" museum, willfully obscure academic theory and shamelessly commercial show business, Boon underlines the inadequacies of simple ideologies and pat generalizations.The book is a profound and eloquent exploration of cultural comparison by one of America's most original and innovative anthropologists.
LC Classification Number
GN33.B63 1999
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