| Ocasião: The Marquis and the Anthropologist, a Collaboration Contributor(s): Marcus, George E. (Author), Mascarenhas, Fernando (Author) |
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ISBN: 0759107777 ISBN-13: 9780759107779 Publisher: Altamira Press OUR PRICE: $50.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2005 Annotation: Anthropologist George Marcus and Fernando Mascarenhas, Marques of Fronteira and Alorna, reveal the key relationship between anthropologist and subject through their letters and commentaries. This innovative and experimental ethnography is a reflection on the survival of the contemporary Portuguese nobility. It will appeal to scholars of anthropological methods and fieldwork, and to researchers interested in the anthropology of elites and in Portuguese culture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Methodology - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 305.520 |
| LCCN: 2004026319 |
| Series: Alterations |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 6.36" W x 8.94" (1.42 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Distinguished anthropologist George Marcus and his co-author Fernando Mascarenhas engage in a new experiment in anthropological writing. Ocasi o reveals the key relationship between anthropologist and subject through the letters and commentaries exchanged between Marcus and Mascarenhas, Marques of Fronteira and Alorna in Portugal. The authors discuss the persistence and survival of the contemporary Portuguese nobility, who serve as witnesses to important transitions in modern Portuguese history. The epistolary form is the medium of this innovative ethnography, and will stimulate a new critique of ethnographic genres, originating in the work of James Clifford and Marcus in Writing Culture. This new book will appeal to readers concerned with anthropological methods and fieldwork; the anthropology of elites, and a diverse European and American community of scholars interested in Portuguese culture. |