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ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMANISM

VOLUME 9, NUMBER 4  DECEMBER 1984

EDITORS

Editor, Miles Richardson, Louisiana State University
Managing Editor, Linda Long McQueen
Editorial Assistant, Maria Cashion

Associate Editors
M. Jill Brody, Louisiana State University
Bruce Grindal, Florida State University
Gregory Reck, Appalachian State University

Book Review Editor
Nancy J. Schmidt, Indiana University

ADVISORY BOARD

Robert P. Armstrong, University of Texas, Dallas
Gerald D. Berreman, University of California, Berkeley
David Bidney, Indiana University (Retired)
Ivan A. Brady, State University of New York at Oswego
Johnetta B. Cole, University of Massachusetts
Francis L. K. Hsu, University of San Francisco
Norris Brock Johnson, University of North Carolina
Arden King, Tulane University
Gilbert Kushner, University of South Florida
L. L. Langness, University of California, Los Angeles
Alfred McClung Lee, City University of New York Brooklyn
Bob Scholte, University of Amsterdam
Robert F. Spencer, University of Minnesota
George Stocking, University of Chicago
Marea Teski, Stockton State College
Colin M. Turnbull, George Washington University
Dennis M. Warren, Iowa State University
Stanley Wilk, Lycoming College
Valentine Winsey, Pace University

CONTENTS

Introduction to the special issue
- Gregory J. Reck   3

A Short Typology of Ethnographic Genres, or ways to Write About Other Peoples
- John B. Gatewood   5

Ethnographic Fiction: Anthroplogy’s Hidden Literary Style
- Nancy J. Schmidt   11

Narrating Multiple Realities: Some Lessons from Jane Austen
for Ethnographer
- Richard Handler and Daniel Segal   15

Malinowski’s Tragic Ethnography
- Richard M. Swiderski   22

Poems   25

Book Reviews   26

Original art by Mary Lee Eggart

Copyright @1984 by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology,
American Anthropological Association, 1703 New Hampshire
Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009. All rights reserved. The mandala on the cover is after a Shri-Yantra meditation pattern from Buddhist ritual (see also Sybil Monoly-Nagy’s Matrix of Man published in 1968 by Praeger, New York).

 

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