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

Pandolfo, Stefania

 
9780226645322: Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from a Moroccan Space of Memory
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226645320 ISBN 13: 9780226645322
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Stefania Pandolfo is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226645320
ISBN 13 
9780226645322
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
401
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