9780691016320, 0691016321, 9780691016313, and 0691016313
Description:
xxi, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-356) and index
Contents:
AnThoreaupology: an invitation -- Rehearsals -- An endlessly extra-vagant scholar: Kenneth Burke -- A similar genre: opera -- Plus Melville, Cavell, commodity-life; showbiz -- Re menses: rereading Ruth Benedict, ultraobjectively -- Of foreskins: (un)circumcision, religious histories, difficult description (Montaigne/Remondino) -- About a footnote: between-the-wars Bali: its relics regained -- Interlude: essay-études and Tristimania -- Cosmopolitan moments: as-if confessions of an ethnographer-tourist (echoey "cosmomes") -- Why museums make me sad (eccentric musings) -- Litterytoor 'n' anthropolygee: an experimental wedding of incongruous styles from Mark Twain and Marcel Mauss -- A little polemic, quizzically -- Against coping across cultures: self-help semiotics rebuffed -- Errant anthropology, with apologies to Chaucer -- Margins and hierarchies and rhetorics that subjugate -- Evermore Derrida, always the same (what gives?) -- Taking Torgovnick as she takes others -- Rerun (1980s): Mary Douglas's grid/group grilled -- Update (1990s): Coca-Cola consumes Baudrillard, and a Balinese (Putu) consumes Coca-Cola -- Encores and envoi: Burke, Cavell, etc., unforgotten