{"product_id":"the-time-at-darwins-reef-poetic-explorations-in-anthropology-and-history-ethnographic-alternatives-12-9780759103368","title":"The Time at Darwins Reef Poetic Explorations in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDraws out key dimensions of the poetics of anthropology and history embedded in creative writing - in the mix and on the margins of verse and prose, painting and writing, fiction and fact - to revisit the sometimes academically resistant idea that there is more than one way to say (and therefore to see) things.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs good and compelling as many of the individual pieces that make up this collection are, I am most impressed by the way it both unfolds and achieves coherence as a work of anthropology. Here a skillful poetics of text-making builds context as certain and as powerfully as any classic ethnography, while yet being a virtuoso performance of all of those tendencies in the aftermath of the 1980s 'Writing Culture' critique that have come to define the preoccupations of anthropology. -- George Marcus, Rice University\u003cbr\u003eThis is a sensitive and in many capacities brilliant accounting of what can be perceived in the borderlands between sea and land, in the Pacific and on the islands of life in other places. -- Robert Borofsky, Hawaii Pacific University, Hawai'i Pacific University\u003cbr\u003eThe Time at Darwin's Reef is a graceful play of history, ethnography, and poetry that shows us the strange in the everyday and the familiar in the exotic, reflecting upon the thickness of the human endeavor without burdening the reader with pronouncements. It remains open even as it seeks coherence, a measure of a mature mind that has made its travels among us but is also poised for the future. The beautiful watercolors join the search in their own poetry of bright and dark, surface and depth. -- Richardson Miles, Louisiana State University\u003cbr\u003eWith The Time at Darwin's Reef, anthropologist and poet Ivan Brady has joined the lineage of earlier anthropologist-poets who date, at the very least, from Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and Edward Sapir. The finest moments in these pages are gripping poetic narratives that combine the love of language with a story that takes us beyond ourselves. In these works anthropological poetics is not only alive, but given inspired impetus toward the future. -- Dan Rose, University of Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003eWhat an anthropologist experiences and learns can have many audiences, can take many forms. In The Time at Darwin's Reef, Ivan Brady invites us to share with him ways in which a range of places and kinds of knowledge can feed imagination, and imagination find novel forms in which to be expressed. The ways in which people use language are part of their culture. Here Brady explores ways in which language, as lines, relations among lines, can be used and varied as part of our culture as anthropologists. These uses of words are descriptive, reflective, admonishing, wondering, humorous, inventive, and varied in place and time. In short, an exemplar of poetry as a verbal tool of ethnography, wide-ranging there, as it is in life, and in this work, truly impressive, with something of the same spirit and flair as Pound and Williams. -- Dell Hymes, University of Virginia\u003cbr\u003eLyrical, pensive, reflective, and witty in the right places, The Time at Darwin's Reef is a highly innovative concept in cultural studies and anthropological texts; through poetic explorations in the times and spaces of journeying for research and other purposes, it clears its own scholarly path to knowing the cultures of self and others. Ivan Brady's fieldwork, teaching experience, and thoughtful probings of substance and style make him the perfect author for such a book. Janie Brady's paintings are imaginative, provocative, and resonate with the text—another reminder that there are many yet-to-be-discovered paths that lead to deeper understanding of cultures and peoples, including ourselves. -- Lola Romanucci-Ross, University of California, San Diego\u003cbr\u003eThe Time At Darwin's Reef is a direct response to the uncertainties attached to evidence, truth, and method in postmodernism. Brady has written in what is probably the only vein one could call 'authorized' by the new criticism and its attention to the misadventures and ruins of classical ethnography: ambiguous writing that 'rings true' rather than being strictly historical or always factually true—the ancient power of fiction, poetry, performance, and storytelling. He wants both to flag and to show us possibilities for transcending the academy's problematics with representing experience by getting at many of the same knowledge objectives in radically different forms of expression and content, not in a war of science vs. art, but as a complement to both. The poetics and the metathesis on writing ethnography and history here are the work of a mature thinker set to words in a smart and pleasurable book. Darwin's Reef is an exemplar of experimental writing and an anti-book of the finest kind. -- Yvonne S. Lincoln, Texas A\u0026amp;M University\u003cbr\u003eI have no hesitation to recommend Brady's poems and short prose pieces in The Time at Darwin's Reef. I was seduced by the lyricism of his language and the rhythm of his writing. * The Contemporary Pacific *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Preface Part 2 I. Gateway Chapter 3 Alone on the Bayou Chapter 4 Sea Cream Chapter 5 Escultura Coral (Watercolor) Chapter 6 Diving in Desecheo Part 7 II. Mythics Chapter 8 They Knew Places Where Chapter 9 Fale Tapu Chapter 10 The Spring Chapter 11 Fire Knees (Or, Not Eating Raoul) Chapter 12 Gilbertese Warrior Chapter 13 When You Were Here Chapter 14 Foot Queries Chapter 15 Predator Chapter 16 Jaguar Chapter 17 Spot of the Cat Chapter 18 Archaeology? Chapter 19 Yellowmouth Moon Chapter 20 Some Moon (Watercolor) Chapter 21 Translated Text Chapter 22 Wiccan Moon Water Chapter 23 Sulphur Chapter 24 A Gift of the Journey Part 25 III. History in Pieces Chapter 26 The Passing of Monica Harmon Chapter 27 Midnight Swim Chapter 28 Letter from Laurie Chapter 29 Island Chains Chapter 30 The Equation Chapter 31 Journal Entry Chapter 32 Hukulika Island Chapter 33 Proem for the Queen of Spain Chapter 34 Para Donde Vas Chapter 35 Sunstone (Watercolor) Chapter 36 Shipwreck Chapter 37 Dead Painting Part 38 IV. Shades of Science Chapter 39 Darwin's Reef (Watercolor) Chapter 40 The Time at Darwin's Reef Chapter 41 Dolphins in the Desert Chapter 42 The Cage of Air Chapter 43 The Shape of Time Chapter 44 Fresh Wind Chapter 45 Cannibal-ism Chapter 46 Behaviorism Chapter 47 Memory Sweep Part 48 V. Self and Other Chapter 49 Port of Call Chapter 50 Resistance Failed Chapter 51 Fieldwork Pastiche Chapter 52 Border Work Chapter 53 Combate Beach Chapter 54 Pueblo Canyon Chapter 55 Dance Plan (Watercolor) Chapter 56 Bones of the Moon Chapter 57 The Visitor Chapter 58 Waterfront Dream Part 59 VI. Semiotica Chapter 60 Tattoo Chapter 61 Mojave Codes Chapter 62 Tahitian Flower Chapter 63 Tramp Steamer Chapter 64 Festival Chapter 65 Nosferatu Rising Chapter 66 Killing Death Chapter 67 My Friend Henry Chapter 68 St. Patrick's Day Chapter 69 Show Me a Sign Chapter 70 Torn Shawl Chapter 71 Pipers Chapter 72 Deep Ideas Part 73 The Place List Part 74 The Date List Part 75 Notes on the Author \/ Notes on the Artist","brand":"AltaMira Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527138156887,"sku":"9780759103368","price":47.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780759103368.jpg?v=1731866670","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-time-at-darwins-reef-poetic-explorations-in-anthropology-and-history-ethnographic-alternatives-12-9780759103368","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}