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082 0 4 _a301/.01
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBoon, James A.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aVerging on Extra-Vagance :
_bAnthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts . . . Showbiz /
_cJames A. Boon.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©1999
300 _a1 online resource (368 p.) :
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tPreface --
_tRehearsals. An Endlessly Extra-Vagant Scholar: Kenneth Burke --
_tA Similar Genre: Opera --
_tPlus Melville, Cavell, Commodity-Life; Showbiz --
_tPART ONE: RITUALS, REREADING, RHETORICAL TURNS --
_tChapter One. Re Menses: Rereading Ruth Benedict, Ultraobjectively --
_tChapter Two Of Foreskins: (Un)Circumcision, Religious Histories, Difficult Description (Montaigne/Remondino) --
_tChapter Three About a Footnote: Between-the-Wars Bali; Its Relics Regained --
_tInterlude: Essay-etudes and Tristimania --
_tPART TWO: MULTIMEDIATIONS: COINCIDENCE, MEMORY, MAGICS --
_tChapter Four Cosmopolitan Moments: As-if Confessions of an Ethnographer- Tourist (Echoey "Cosmomes") --
_tChapter Five Why Museums Make Me Sad (Eccentric Musings) --
_tChapter Six Litterytoor 'n' Anthropolygee: An Experimental Wedding of Incongruous Styles from Mark Twain and Marcel Mauss --
_tPART THREE: CROSS-OVER STUDIES, SERIOCOMIC CRITIQUE --
_tA Little Polemic, Quizzically --
_tChapter Seven Against Coping Across Cultures: Self-help Semiotics Rebuffed --
_tChapter Eight Errant Anthropology, with Apologies to Chaucer --
_tChapter Nine Margins and Hierarchies and Rhetorics That Subjugate --
_tChapter Ten Evermore Derrida, Always the Same (What Gives?) --
_tChapter Eleven Taking Torgovnick as She Takes Others --
_tChapter Twelve Rerun (1980s): Mary Douglas's Grid/Group Grilled --
_tChapter Thirteen Update (1990s): Coca-Cola Consumes Baudrillard, and a Balinese (Putu) Consumes Coca-Cola --
_tEncores and Envoi. Burke, Cavell, etc., Unforgotten --
_tAcknowledgments and Credits --
_tNotes --
_tReferences --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn this book, James Boon ranges through history and around the globe in a series of provocative reflections on the limitations, attractions, and ambiguities of cultural interpretation. The book reflects the unusual keyword of its title, extra-vagance, a term Thoreau used to refer to thought that skirts traditional boundaries. Boon follows Thoreau's lead by broaching subjects as diverse as Balinese ritual, Montaigne, Chaucer, Tarzan, Perry Mason, opera, and the ideas of Jacques Derrida, Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Burke, and Mary Douglas. He makes creative and often playful leaps among eclectic texts and rituals that do not hold single, fixed meanings, but numerous, changing, and exceedingly specific ones. Boon opens by exploring links between ritual and reading, focusing on commentaries about the seclusion of menstruating women in Native American culture, trance dances in Bali, and circumcision (or lack of it) in contrasting religions. He considers the ironies of "first-person ethnography" by telling stories from his own fieldwork, reflecting on ethnological museums, and making seriocomic connections between Mark Twain and Marcel Mauss. In expansive discussions that touch on Manhattan and Sri Lanka, the Louvre and the "World of Coca-Cola" museum, willfully obscure academic theory and shamelessly commercial show business, Boon underlines the inadequacies of simple ideologies and pat generalizations. The book is a profound and eloquent exploration of cultural comparison by one of America's most original and innovative anthropologists.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
_2bisacsh
653 _aApollonian and Dionysian values.
653 _aBuginese.
653 _aCalvin and Calvinism.
653 _aChristian rites and contexts.
653 _aDolly as a leading motive.
653 _aDutch scholarship.
653 _aFrance and the French.
653 _aGrandville.
653 _aHollywood.
653 _aIndic rites and contexts.
653 _aIslamic rites and contexts.
653 _aJapanese friends and culture.
653 _aJewish rites and contexts.
653 _aalchemy.
653 _aamusement industry.
653 _aaphorism.
653 _abirths, actual and metaphorical.
653 _abricolage.
653 _acarnivalization.
653 _acircumcisions.
653 _acomedy and theory.
653 _acyberspace.
653 _adeconstruction.
653 _adesire and theory.
653 _adialectics.
653 _aelective affinities.
653 _aethnography as a genre.
653 _aextra-Vagance.
653 _afeminist topics.
653 _agenitality as a category.
653 _ahermeneutics.
653 _ahybrids and hybridities.
653 _aiconography and art history.
653 _ajournalistic accounts.
653 _alists and copiousness.
653 _amargins and marginality.
653 _amarriage institutions.
653 _amelancholia.
653 _amodernism and modernity.
653 _amotives and leading motives.
653 _amuseums.
653 _amystic positions.
653 _aneoplatonism.
653 _anovels as a genre.
653 _apalimpsests.
653 _apolemical critique.
653 _apostmodernist positions.
653 _arace and racisms.
653 _arenunciation.
653 _asacrifice.
653 _aseriocomic interpretation.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780691231150?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691231150
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