Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Anthropological Poetics

In Anthropological Poetics, 14 distinguished anthropologists cast their imaginations self-consciously in a search for less conventional forms of understanding and expression. These essays provide an eloquent demonstration that there is more than one way to say anthropology and that some things said poetically about anthropological experience can't be said with equal effectiveness any other way. Review ^RAnthropological Poetics^I deserves a hearty welcome. It brings ethno-poetics back home.--Paul Rabinow These essays provide an eloquent demonstration that there is more than one way to say anthropology and that some things said poetically about anthropological experience can't be said with equal effectiveness any other way.--Wisconsin Bookwatch This is a very interesting collection of essays. It affords both the specialist and the outsider a fascinating overview of the efforts of a discipline.--Comparative Literature This volume, which is considerably enriched by Ivan Brady's concise and perceptive introductions to each essay, will make a lasting contribution to anthropology; it may enable us to open our senses to the world and hear the confounding pulse of life that beats so strongly in the world.--American Anthropologist ...a milestone in the coming of age of interpretive anthropology.--William L. Rodman, McMaster University This is the most important collection from within anthropology to address recent efforts to understand the relationship between anthropology, literature, and romanticism...--George E. Marcus, Rice University About the Author Ivan Brady is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York College in Oswego.