ISBN: 9780520023994

Products of the imagination such as novels can be especially useful tools for understanding how things work in societies far removed from our own experience. It involves the reader in the… Meer...

Products of the imagination such as novels can be especially useful tools for understanding how things work in societies far removed from our own experience. It involves the reader in the dynamics of life in places where the rules for action are very different from the rules the reader makes his own decisions by. Pages Visit Store Get In Touch Add To Favourites View Feedback Have a Question? Get in touch today! Contact Us Visit Shop About Us View Feedback Add To Favourite Sellers Crazy February: Death and Life in the Mayan Highlands of Mexico by Carter Wilson (Paperback, 1974) Check Out Our Feedback Publisher : University of California Press; First Paperback Edition. (2 April 1974)Language : EnglishPaperback : 260 pagesISBN-10 : 0520023994ISBN-13 : 978-0520023994Dimensions : 13.65 x 1.78 x 20.64 cm Description Summary Products of the imagination such as novels can be especially useful tools for understanding how things work in societies far removed from our own experience. Through the telling of a story a sound ethnographic novel conveys more than information. It involves the reader in the dynamics of life in places where the rules for action are very different from the rules the reader makes his own decisions by. Some people believe ethnographic novels are comparable to fieldnotes- the data themselves in their original unanalyzed form. Though I can see the reason for the analogy the author still disagree with it. Good fieldnotes record raw experience. For the time being the anthropologist squelches his desire to interpret and he writes down everything he can see or remember. Good ethnographic fiction also presents experience raw without generalization. But in building the story in selecting to tell this because it is important and not to tell that because it seems trivial the novelist is analyzing his material. Between the raw and the cooked both ethnographies and ethnographic novels belong in the processed pot. Anthropologists try to make explicit and public both the method they have used to gather their material and the means for analyzing it. Ordinarily a novelist obscures his analysis-the grounds for the choices he has made-and depends on the interior logic of the story to make his tale seem true or believable. But Crazy February works with somewhat different principles than the author would normally use in writing fiction. The book grew directly out of field experience. Wilson felt strongly that it would stand or fall on its ethnographic correctness. And so faced with choices between what the author would like to see in the story and what he thought would actually happen to an Indian in the mountains of Chiapas he consistently chose actuality. In a practical day-to-day writing sense reality was the authors rod and my staff. And in the end he was very happy when anthropologi Books Browse DVDs Browse Music Browse Audio Books Browse Shipping Your item usually posted within a day. 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Add To Favourite Sellers View All Products Get In Touch Add To Favourites View Feedback Books DVDs Audio Books Music Other Visit Shop! , Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Narrtive Type: Non Fiction/Fiction, Product Group: Book, Title: Crazy February: Death and Life in the Mayan Highlands of Mexico b, Age Level: Adults, Modified Item: No, Series: Crazy February, Date Published: 2 April 197, ISBN-10: 0520023994, EAN: 9780520023994, Brand: University of California Press First Paperback Edition, Genre: Politics, Publication Year: 1974, Type: Textbook, Format: Paperback, Language: English, Book Title: Crazy February: Death and Life in the Mayan Highlands of Mexico, Item Height: 206mm, Topic: Anthropology, Item Width: 137mm, Item Weight: 272g, Number of Pages: 264 Pages, University of California Press<