8 research outputs found
The Language of Evangelism: Christian Cultures of Circulation Beyond the Missionary Prologue
The ‘problem’ of undesigned relationality: Ethnographic fieldwork, dual roles and research ethics
Dissent with modification: how postcreationism’s claim of hyperrapid speciation opposes yet embraces evolutionary theory
Literature and reading
This article examines anthropological approaches to fiction reading. It asks why the field of Literary Anthropology remains largely disinvested of ethnographic work on literary cultures and how that field might approach the study of Literature and reading ethnographically. The issue of the creative agency of fiction readers is explored in the context of what it means to ask anthropological questions of literature; this includes the challenge of speaking back to dominant approaches grounded in forms of critical analysis. Finally, the article looks to recent work in the Anthropology of Christianity on Bible reading and engagements with biblical character to open up new questions about the relationship between fiction reading and temporal regimes