LEADER 03415nam 22006735 450 001 9910373939103321 005 20240322012323.0 010 $a9783030349257 010 $a303034925X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-34925-7 035 $a(CKB)4900000000505040 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6006817 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-34925-7 035 $a(Perlego)3480375 035 $a(EXLCZ)994900000000505040 100 $a20200106d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aContaminations and Ethnographic Fictions $eSouthern Crossings /$fby Oscar Hemer 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (231 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology,$x2946-4226 311 08$a9783030349240 311 08$a3030349241 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"The form that Oscar Hemer has created in Cape Calypso allows a multi-perspectival treatment of the subject-a great improvement on linear narrative." -J.M. Coetzee, Professor of Literature, University of Adelaide, Australia, and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature In an unusual merging of academic and literary practices, this volume attempts to identify a form (or forms) that is congenial with the subject of interrogation: the world in transition, with South Africa as the main focal point. Approaching anthropology from the position of the literary writer, Oscar Hemer here takes the reader through a kaleidoscope of perspectives-a stream-of-consciousness understanding of "writing the city" of Johannesburg, embedding ethnography in subjectivity; a challenge to binaries both temporal and gendered in examining the growth of the IT metropolis Bangalore to a combusting mega-city; an auto-ethnographic interweaving of fictional reportage with a close-reading of anthropological and philosophical treatises, including Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger and Edouard Glissant's Poetics of Relation, among others-to interrogate themes of transition, identity, purity and variation in the Western Cape. As the form transcends boundaries to create a methodological hybrid, creolization comes to the fore as a theoretical concept and as cultural practice. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology,$x2946-4226 606 $aEthnology 606 $aSocial structure 606 $aEquality 606 $aCulture$xStudy and teaching 606 $aLiterature 606 $aSociocultural Anthropology 606 $aSocial Structure 606 $aCultural Studies 606 $aWorld Literature 615 0$aEthnology. 615 0$aSocial structure. 615 0$aEquality. 615 0$aCulture$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aLiterature. 615 14$aSociocultural Anthropology. 615 24$aSocial Structure. 615 24$aCultural Studies. 615 24$aWorld Literature. 676 $a301 676 $a809 700 $aHemer$b Oscar$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0963838 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910373939103321 996 $aContaminations and Ethnographic Fictions$92185815 997 $aUNINA