Article: Texture/Contexture: Explorations in Anthropology and Literary Studies.(Review)

DANIEL, E. VALENTINE & JEFFREY M. PECK (eds). viii, 410 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Berkeley, London: Univ. of California Press, 1996. [pounds]40.00 (cloth), [pounds]12.95 (paper)

This volume takes up the very important task of exploring the exchanges across the borders of anthropology and literary studies that have been so significant in stimulating and then establishing the enduring legacy of the 'Writing Culture' cross-disciplinary assessment of anthropology of the 1980s. In these exchanges what was of primary value to anthropology was an enhancement of its longstanding interest in language away from formal linguistics towards theories of narrative, voice and ...

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