Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-151) and index.
Contents:
The anthropological imagination -- The "anthropological flâneur" in Paris: Documents, Bifur, and collage culture in Carpentier's Ecué-yamba-O! -- The eye of the anthropologist: vision and mastery in José María Arguedas -- The voice of the other : anthropological discourse and the testimonio in Biografía de un cimarrón and Canto de sirena -- The "I" of the anthropologist : allegories of fieldwork in Darcy Ribeiro's Maíra -- Sa(l)vage ethnography : the cannibalistic imagination in Juan José Saer's El entenado -- Afterword : the anthropological imagination and the question of a Latin American postmodernism.
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