James Boon

Verging on extra-Vagance: Anthropology, history, religion, literature, arts ... showbiz.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1999 .

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations    
Preface: AnThoreaupology: An Invitation    
Rehearsals   3
An Endlessly Extra-Vagant Scholar: Kenneth Burke   3
A Similar Genre: Opera   9
Plus Melville, Cavell, Commodity-Life; Showbiz   14
Pt. 1 Rituals, Rereading, Rhetorical Turns 21
Ch. 1 Re Menses: Rereading Ruth Benedict, Ultraobjectively 23
Ch. 2 Of Foreskins: (Un)Circumcision, Religious Histories, Difficult Description (Montaigne/Remondino) 43
Ch. 3 About a Footnote: Between-the-Wars Bali: Its Relics Regained 73
Interlude: Essay-etudes and Tristimania   97
Pt. 2 Multimediations: Coincidence, Memory, Magics 101
Ch. 4 Cosmopolitan Moments: As-if Confessions of an Ethnographer-Tourist (Echoey "Cosmomes") 103
Ch. 5 Why Museums Make Me Sad (Eccentric Musings) 124
Ch. 6 Litterytoor 'n' Anthropolygee: An Experimental Wedding of Incongruous Styles from Mark Twain and Marcel Mauss 143
Pt. 3 Cross-over Studies, Seriocomic Critique 167
A Little Polemic, Quizzically   169
Ch. 7 Against Coping Across Cultures: Self-help Semiotics Rebuffed 176
Ch. 8 Errant Anthropology, with Apologies to Chaucer 191
Ch. 9 Margins and Hierarchies and Rhetorics That Subjugate 198
Ch. 10 Evermore Derrida, Always the Same (What Gives?) 211
Ch. 11 Taking Torgovnick as She Takes Others 221
Ch. 12 Rerun (1980s): Mary Douglas's Grid/Group Grilled 230
Ch. 13 Update (1990s): Coca-Cola Consumes Baudrillard, and a Balinese (Putu) Consumes Coca-Cola 249
Encores and Envoi: Burke, Cavell, etc., Unforgotten   263
Acknowledgments and Credits   279
Notes   283
References   315
Index   357

 

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