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Article: Between anthropology and literature: interdisciplinary discourse.(Book Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- December 1, 2004
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DE ANGELIS, ROSE (ed.) Between anthropology and literature: interdisciplinary discourse. x, 180 pp., bibliogrs. London, New York: Routledge Harwood, 2002. [pounds sterling]50.00 (cloth)
As Rose De Angelis writes, the purpose of the book is to question the validity of a strict disciplinary boundary between anthropology and literature, at a time when 'schools, big and small are hiring faculties ... and establishing courses that speak to two or more disciplines'.
The book's ten essays are grouped under three headings. In the first, oddly titled 'Anthropology and literature as ethnography', Janet Tallman, the only anthropologist among English Literature, ...