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Methodology & History in Anthropology
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Anthropology and Travel Writing, 19th–21st Century
From Proto-Ethnographies to Self-Reflexive Travelogues
Edited by Horatiu Burcea
298 pages, 10 ills., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-83695-669-3 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (August 2026)
eISBN 978-1-83695-668-6 eBook Not Yet Published
Reviews
“This is a very interesting book which addresses a worthwhile topic in a rounded, incisive, exploratory yet informative manner.” • Jeremy MacClancy, University of Oxford
Description
From the nineteenth century onward, there have been gaps between travel writing and anthropological sciences, but also commonalities and continuous interactions in the anglophone world. Through a variety of case studies resulting from a collaboration between anthropologists and literary scholars, Anthropology and Travel Writing follows the shift from armchair speculation to sustained fieldwork, from the picturesque to analytic thick description and from colonial typologies to Indigenous counter-readings. Attentive to the notions of authority, validity, identity and reflexivity, this volume explores how alterity is scrutinized and staged, delineating the aesthetic, analytic and ethical stakes of representation.
Horatiu Burcea is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Évry Paris-Saclay. His research explores the intersections of narrative, anthropology and new media, with a particular interest in historical ethnography, translation, localization and game studies.
Subject: Anthropology (General)Travel and Tourism
Contents
Of Related Interest
Travel and Representation
How Kinship Systems Change
On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification
In the Meantime
Toward an Anthropology of the Possible
