Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from a Moroccan Space of Memory - Couverture souple

Pandolfo, Stefania

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226645320 ISBN 13 : 9780226645322

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1998

Synopsis

The image of the ethnographer in the field who observes his or her subjects from a distance while copiously taking notes has given way in recent years to a more critical and engaged form of anthropology. Composed as a polyphonic dialogue of texts, Stefania Pandolfo's Impasse of the Angels takes this engagement to its limit by presenting the relationship between observer and observed as one of interacting equals and mutually constituting interlocuters.

Impasse of the Angels explores what it means to be a subject in the historical and poetic imagination of a southern Moroccan society. Passionate and lyrical, ironic and tragic, the book listens to dissonant, often idiosyncratic voices—poetic texts, legends, social spaces, folktales, conversations—which elaborate in their own ways the fractures, wounds, and contradictions of the Maghribî postcolonial present. Moving from concrete details in a traditional ethnographic sense to a creative, experiential literary style, Impasse of the Angels is a tale of life and death compellingly addressing readers from anthropology, literature, philosophy, postcolonial criticism, and Middle Eastern studies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stefania Pandolfo is professor and director of the UC Berkeley Medical Anthropology Program on Critical Studies in Medicine, Science, and the Body at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Impasse of the Angels.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226645320
• ISBN 13: 9780226645322
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 397
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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