1st Edition

Transcendent Individual Essays Toward a Literary and Liberal Anthropology

By Nigel Rapport Copyright 1997
232 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

Transcendent Individual argues for a reappraisal of the place of the individual in anthropolgical theory and ethnographic writing. A wealth of voices illustrate and inform the text, showing ways in which individuals creatively 'write', narrate and animate cultural and social life. This is an anthropology imbued with a liberal morality which is willing to make value judgements over and against... Read more
Manifesto, I. Writing Individual Knowledge and Personal Relations, II. 'Going Meta', III. Individual Narratives, IV. Movement and Identity, V. 'Surely Everything Has Already Been Said About Malinowski's Diary', VI. Writing Fieldnotes, VII. Domino Worlds, VIII. Hard-Sell or Numbling 'Right' Rudely, IX. Discourse and Creativity, X. Individual Morality

Biography

Nigel Rapport