{"product_id":"contaminations-and-ethnographic-fictions-southern-crossings-9783030349271","title":"Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions: Southern Crossings","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Oscar Hemer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The form that Oscar Hemer has created in Cape Calypso allows a multi-perspectival treatment of the subject--a great improvement on linear narrative.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--J.M. Coetzee, Professor of Literature, University of Adelaide, Australia, and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePurity and Danger\u003c\/i\u003e and Edouard Glissant's \u003ci\u003ePoetics of Relation\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45273755353239,"sku":"9783030349271","price":2056.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783030349271.webp?v=1769237502","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/contaminations-and-ethnographic-fictions-southern-crossings-9783030349271","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}