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With a new introduction by the authors, this paperback edition of Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture takes the complete body of work of a major novelist as the basis for rethinking ethnographic representation and cross-cultural analysis.

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This is an extraordinarily stimulating book—not least because the authors require the reader to confront an ethnographer of another time and another place whose own insights translate directly into contemporary concerns. Its core is one of Jane Austen's great insights: that significant observation does not require a vast canvas—it requires, simply but rigorously, the capacity to make what one observes signify. -- Marilyn Strathern, University of Manchester

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Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 A World of Marriage Chapter 3 The Natural, the Civil, and the Unnatural Chapter 4 Family, Connections, and Incest Chapter 5 Hierarchies of Choice Chapter 6 Courting Exchanges and Alter-Cultural Marriages Chapter 7 Creative Dance and the Problem of Theatricality Chapter 8 Narrating Multiple Realities Chapter 9 Dialogue and Translation Chapter 10 But What, Then, of Reality?

Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture An Essay

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      Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
      Publication Date: 03/01/2000
      ISBN13: 9780847690480, 978-0847690480
      ISBN10: 0847690482
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      With a new introduction by the authors, this paperback edition of Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture takes the complete body of work of a major novelist as the basis for rethinking ethnographic representation and cross-cultural analysis.

      Trade Review
      This is an extraordinarily stimulating book—not least because the authors require the reader to confront an ethnographer of another time and another place whose own insights translate directly into contemporary concerns. Its core is one of Jane Austen's great insights: that significant observation does not require a vast canvas—it requires, simply but rigorously, the capacity to make what one observes signify. -- Marilyn Strathern, University of Manchester

      Table of Contents
      Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 A World of Marriage Chapter 3 The Natural, the Civil, and the Unnatural Chapter 4 Family, Connections, and Incest Chapter 5 Hierarchies of Choice Chapter 6 Courting Exchanges and Alter-Cultural Marriages Chapter 7 Creative Dance and the Problem of Theatricality Chapter 8 Narrating Multiple Realities Chapter 9 Dialogue and Translation Chapter 10 But What, Then, of Reality?

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