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Contents
List of illustrations
List of authors discussed in this volume
Preface
Introduction: Ethnographic practice and theory in France
Robert Parkin and Anne de Sales
Chapter 1. ‘Keeping your eyes open’: Arnold van Gennep and the autonomy of the folkloristic
Giordano Charuty
Chapter 2. Canonical ethnography: Hanoteau and Letourneux on Kabyle communal law
Peter Parkes
Chapter 3. Postcards at the service of the Imaginary: Jean Rouch, shared anthropology and the ciné-trance
Paul Henley
Chapter 4. Eric de Dampierre and the art of fieldwork
Margaret Buckner
Chapter 5. What sort of anthropologist was Paul Rivet?
Laura Rival
Chapter 6. Alfred Métraux: empiricist and romanticist
Peter Rivière
Chapter 7. Roger Bastide or the 'darknesses of alterity'
Stefania Capone
Chapter 8. The art and craft of ethnography: Lucien Bernot, 1919–1993
Gérard Toffin
Chapter 9. André-Georges Haudricourt: a thorough materialist
Alban Bensa
Chapter 10. Louis Dumont: from museology to structuralism via India
Robert Parkin
Chapter 11. Will the real Maurice Leenhardt please stand up? Four anthropologists in search of an ancestor
Jeremy MacClancy
Notes on Contributors
Index
Out of the Study and Into the Field
Ethnographic Theory and Practice in French Anthropology
Edited by Robert Parkin and Anne de Sales
300 pages, 17 ills, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-84545-695-5 Hb Published (June 2010)
eISBN 978-1-84545-843-0
web ISBN 978-1-84545-843-0