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ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMANISM
VOLUME 11, NUMBER
4 DECEMBER 1986
SPECIAL ISSUE: IMAGE AND NARRATIVE
edited by Bruce T. Grindal and Gregory G. Reck
CONTENTS
POETRY
The Spirit of Anthropological Poetry
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Bruce T. Grindal 82
Poetry Winner
We Shall Dry Our Eyes
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Anthony Leeds 84
Poetry First Runner-up
We Discovered the Dancing
Surfaces of Fire
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Dan Rose 87
Second Runner-up
cannibal-ism
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Ivan Brady 87
Poetry Honorable Mention
Five Days From a Dream Almanac
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Dennis Tedlock 88
FICTION
Introduction
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Gregory G. Reck 91
Fiction Writer
Keeping The Breath Nearby
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Barbara Tedlock 92
Fiction Honorable Mention
The Pig Men
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Saral Waldorf 95
Narayan's Road and the
Wheel of Change in Nepal
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Peter Skafte 102
BOOK REVIEWS
Construction Work in
Humanistic Perspective
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Nancy J. Schmidt 105
Art Flux:
Songs, Poems, and Pots
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Richard L. Anderson 106
Poetic Reflections:
Change in the Wind
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George E. McDonough 108
MAP
Distribution of Quarterly subscribers 109
INDEX TO VOLUME 11
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Preface
Image and
Narrative is a special issue of the Quarterly devoted to anthropological poetry and stories.
Following Anthropologist as Word Shaman (vol.
5[4], 1980), its appearance marks the second time
the Quarterly has provided a medium for anthropologists to present their ideas and data in a manner
distinct from the traditional format of the science
article. In so doing, the Quarterly is unique among
professional journals.
The present collection of poems and stories are,
with one exception, from a competition sponsored
by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. Through the AAA Anthropology Newsletter, members were invited to send
their poems to Bruce Grindal (Florida State University) and their stories to
Gregory Reck (Appalachian State University).
These two, with the assistance of Nancy Schmidt
(Indiana University) in fiction, served as judges and
announced the results at the December meeting in
Philadelphia. Poems submitted but not among the
present collection will appear in later issues. The
story by Peter Skafte was not part of the competition.
ON THE COVER
The cover photo, a Portrait of Jean Baptiste Cabri, was
submitted by Ivan Brady. It is taken from G. H.
Langsdorff's Voyages and Travels in Various Parts of the
World During the Years 1803-1807 (Colburn 1813).
Brady notes that the sixteen-year-old Cabri was shipwrecked--or had deserted--on the Marquesas Islands
in 1796. When the Russians found him seven years
later, he had trouble conversing in his native French,
but was fluent in the local languages, had married a
chief's daughter, and in the manner of a Marquesan
warrior had been most spectacularly tattooed. Carried
to Russia, where people marveled at his tattoos, heard
his cannibal tales, sampled his warrior bravado, and
followed his dancing antics, he tried unsuccessfully to
work his way from one sideshow to another back across
the continent to the Marquesas. Tired and sick, he
died at died at Valenciennes in 1822. That another man had
falled between the cracks of two cultures is perhaps
not noteworthy, but Cabri's circus value lingered on a bit longer than
most; there was even talk of preserving his tattooed skin. For more on Cabri's fascinating history, see Greg Dening's Islands and Beaches
(University Press of Hawaii, 1980), and Jennifer Terrell's article in the Journal of Pacific History 17(2):101-12, 1982.
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