{"product_id":"contaminations-and-ethnographic-fictions-oscar-hemer-9783030349271","title":"Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions: Southern Crossings","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn an unusual merging of academic and literary practices, this volume attempts to identify a form (or forms) that is congenial with the subject of interrogation: the world in transition, with South Africa as the main focal point. Approaching anthropology from the position of the literary writer, Oscar Hemer here takes the reader through a kaleidoscope of perspectives-a stream-of-consciousness understanding of \"writing the city\" of Johannesburg, embedding ethnography in subjectivity; a challenge to binaries both temporal and gendered in examining the growth of the IT metropolis Bangalore to a combusting mega-city; an auto-ethnographic interweaving of fictional reportage with a close-reading of anthropological and philosophical treatises, including Mary Douglas's \u003ci\u003ePurity and Danger\u003c\/i\u003e and Edouard Glissant's \u003ci\u003ePoetics of Relation\u003c\/i\u003e, among others-to interrogate themes of transition, identity, purity and variation in the Western Cape. As the form transcends boundaries to create a methodological hybrid, creolization comes to the fore as a theoretical concept and as cultural practice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Oscar Hemer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3030349276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030349271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/08\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.51d","brand":"Oscar Hemer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44073524560127,"sku":"9783030349271","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1eb67811-7e35-4d4e-8983-a0c00d2d7677.jpg?v=1685448328","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/contaminations-and-ethnographic-fictions-oscar-hemer-9783030349271","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}