{"product_id":"9783030349240","title":"Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology: Southern Crossings","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePalgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology: Southern Crossings\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eHemer, Oscar\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2020-01-07\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030349240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-34925-7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 220\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44499754320012,"sku":"9783030349240","price":62.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030349240.jpg?v=1775964422","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783030349240","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}