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A Crack in the mirror
A Crack in the mirror: reflexive perspectives in anthropology
Jay Ruby, editor
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.
ISBN: 0812278151   DDC: 306   LCC: GN345  

Notes:

Contents: Introduction / Barbara Myerhoff and Jay Ruby -- Collective
reflexivity / Richard Schechner -- Dramatic ritual/ritual drama /
Victor Turner -- Life history among the elderly / Barbara Myerhoff --
Ethnography as trompe l'oeil / Jay Ruby -- How to look at us looking
at the Yanomami looking at us / Eric Michaels -- Anthropological
hermeneutics and the problem of alphabetic literacy / Dennis Tedlock
-- Rhetoric and the ethnographic genre in anthropological research /
George E. Marcus -- Masked I go forward / Paul Rabinow -- Ritual
undress and the comedy of self and other / Barbara A. Babcock --
Social explorers and social scientists / Carol Ann Parssinen --
Occasions and forms of anthropological experience / Dan Rose.

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Dewey Class: 306 -- Culture & institutions
LCC Number: GN345

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: vi, 299 p. ; 24 cm.

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