{"product_id":"far-afield-9780226107066","title":"Far Afield","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnthropology has long had a vexed relationship with literature, and nowhere has this been more acutely felt than in France, where most ethnographers, upon returning from the field, write not one book, but two: a scientific monograph and a literary account. The author puzzles out this phenomenon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This remarkable and ambitious work expertly takes both a long-view and close-ups of the main currents of twentieth-century French anthropological research and thinking. Travel writing, anthropology's relation to surrealism, the dissolution of science-literature unity in belles-lettres, and structuralism into post-structuralism are all systematically addressed with great insights, great turns of phrase (caught well in translation), and fresh interpretations.\" (George Marcus, University of California, Irvine)\"","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49399945036119,"sku":"9780226107066","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/far-afield-9780226107066","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}