Culture writing : literature and anthropology in the midcentury Atlantic world

Culture Writing argues that the period of decolonization witnessed dynamic exchanges between writers and anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic. Watson analyzes writers who engaged professionally with anthropologyBarbara Pym, Ursula Le Guin, Saul Bellow, douard Glissant-and anthropologists who adopted literary formsLaura Bohannan, Michel Leiris, and Claude Lvi-Strauss.