Verging on extra-vagance : anthropology, history, religion, literature, arts ... showbiz /
In this book, James Boon ranges through history and around the globe in a series of provocative reflections on the limitations, attractions, and ambiguities of cultural interpretation. The book reflects the unusual keyword of its title, extra-vagance, a term Thoreau used to refer to thought that ski...
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Table of Contents:
- AnThoreaupology: an invitation
- Rehearsals
- An endlessly extra-vagant scholar: Kenneth Burke
- A similar genre: opera
- Plus Melville, Cavell, commodity-life; showbiz
- Re menses: rereading Ruth Benedict, ultraobjectively
- Of foreskins: (un)circumcision, religious histories, difficult description (Montaigne/Remondino)
- About a footnote: between-the-wars Bali: its relics regained
- Interlude: essay-études and Tristimania
- Cosmopolitan moments: as-if confessions of an ethnographer-tourist (echoey "cosmomes")
- Why museums make me sad (eccentric musings)
- Litterytoor 'n' anthropolygee: an experimental wedding of incongruous styles from Mark Twain and Marcel Mauss
- A little polemic, quizzically
- Against coping across cultures: self-help semiotics rebuffed
- Errant anthropology, with apologies to Chaucer
- Margins and hierarchies and rhetorics that subjugate
- Evermore Derrida, always the same (what gives?)
- Taking Torgovnick as she takes others
- Rerun (1980s): Mary Douglas's grid/group grilled
- Update (1990s): Coca-Cola consumes Baudrillard, and a Balinese (Putu) consumes Coca-Cola
- Encores and envoi: Burke, Cavell, etc., unforgotten.