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Far Afield
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Author : Susanna Kaysen
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2013-08-21
Far Afield written by Susanna Kaysen and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-21 with Fiction categories.
A compulsively readable novel of enormous charm swimming in the cuisine and culture of the Faroe Islands from the author of Girl, Interrupted. Jonathan Brand, a graduate student in anthropology, has decided to do his fieldwork in the remote Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic. But, despite his Harvard training, he can barely understand, let alone "study," the culture he encounters. From his struggles with the local cuisine to his affair with the Danish woman the locals want him to marry, Jonathan is both repelled by and drawn into the Faroese way of life. Wry and insightful, Far Afield reveals Susanna Kaysen's gifts of imagination, satire, and compassion.
Far Afield
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language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
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Far Afield
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Author : Vincent Debaene
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2014-04-04
Far Afield written by Vincent Debaene and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-04 with Social Science categories.
Anthropology has long had a vexed relationship with literature, and nowhere has this been more acutely felt than in France, where most ethnographers, upon returning from the field, write not one book, but two: a scientific monograph and a literary account. In Far Afield—brought to English-language readers here for the first time—Vincent Debaene puzzles out this phenomenon, tracing the contours of anthropology and literature’s mutual fascination and the ground upon which they meet in the works of thinkers from Marcel Mauss and Georges Bataille to Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes. The relationship between anthropology and literature in France is one of careful curiosity. Literary writers are wary about anthropologists’ scientific austerity but intrigued by the objects they collect and the issues they raise, while anthropologists claim to be scientists but at the same time are deeply concerned with writing and representational practices. Debaene elucidates the richness that this curiosity fosters and the diverse range of writings it has produced, from Proustian memoirs to proto-surrealist diaries. In the end he offers a fascinating intellectual history, one that is itself located precisely where science and literature meet.
Far Afield
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Author : Shane Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Release Date : 2016-10-25
Far Afield written by Shane Mitchell and has been published by Ten Speed Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-25 with Cooking categories.
An extraordinarily photographed culinary travel book featuring profiles of the stewards of the world's traditional foodways—farming, fishing, and herding methods—along with 40 recipes. James Beard Award-winning journalist Shane Mitchell and photographer James Fisher have traveled the world on assignment for food and travel publications such as Travel + Leisure and Saveur. Along the way, they have encountered the fascinating people who are keeping some of the world's oldest food traditions alive, such as taro farmers in Hawaii who have never left the islands, Maasai warriors in Kenya, and Icelandic shepherds who still use the techniques of their Viking ancestors. Full of compelling photography from far-flung locations, Far Afield profiles these people, sharing their unique and captivating stories along with forty recipes.
Not Far Afield
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Author : Norman Myers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Not Far Afield written by Norman Myers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Nature categories.
Too Far Afield
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Author : Günter Grass
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Release Date : 2000
Too Far Afield written by Günter Grass and has been published by Houghton Mifflin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Fiction categories.
Follows two old German men--one a former Eastern diplomat, the other a Prussian spy who has served many masters--as they make their way in modern Germany.
Far Afield In The Caribbean
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Author : Mary Bond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
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The Far Field
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Author : Madhuri Vijay
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2019-01-15
The Far Field written by Madhuri Vijay and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Fiction categories.
“Remarkable . . . Vijay traces the fault lines of history, love, and obligation running through a fractured family and country.” —Anthony Marra, New York Times–bestselling author Winner of the 2019 JCB Prize for Literature Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize–winner Madhuri Vijay’s The Far Field follows a complicated flaneuse across the Indian subcontinent as she reckons with her past, her desires, and the tumultuous present. In the wake of her mother’s death, Shalini, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village in the troubled northern region of Kashmir. Certain that the loss of her mother is somehow connected to the decade-old disappearance of Bashir Ahmed, a charming Kashmiri salesman who frequented her childhood home, she is determined to confront him. But upon her arrival, Shalini is brought face to face with Kashmir’s politics, as well as the tangled history of the local family that takes her in. And when life in the village turns volatile and old hatreds threaten to erupt into violence, Shalini finds herself forced to make a series of choices that could hold dangerous repercussions for the very people she has come to love. With rare acumen and evocative prose, in The Far Field Madhuri Vijay masterfully examines Indian politics, class prejudice, and sexuality through the lens of an outsider, offering a profound meditation on grief, guilt, and the limits of compassion. “A chance to glimpse the lives of distant people captured in prose gorgeous enough to make them indelible—and honest enough to make them real.” —The Washington Post “A singular story of mother and daughter.” —Entertainment Weekly
Far Afield A Novel Large Print 16pt
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Author : Scott Brown
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Release Date : 2012-09-01
Far Afield A Novel Large Print 16pt written by Scott Brown and has been published by ReadHowYouWant this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with Fiction categories.
A literary comedy of manners set in a fictitious island nation in the South Pacific, somewhere between the Japan and Indonesia. It tells the story of a vacationing Asian - American journalist, Benjamin Inoue, who gets swept up into a cascading chain of events and who becomes the campaign manager of a buffoonish and megalomaniac island scion who ...
Kraft
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Author : Jonas Lüscher
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2020-11-10
Kraft written by Jonas Lüscher and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-10 with Fiction categories.
Jonas Lüscher, the author of Barbarian Spring—“a most humorous and convincing satire of the ridiculous excesses of those responsible for the financial crisis” (The New York Times Book Review)—returns to the topic of neoliberal arrogance in his Swiss Book Prize-winning, hilarious, and wicked novel about a man facing the ruins of his life, and his world. Richard Kraft, a German professor of rhetoric and aging Reaganite and Knight Rider fan, is unhappily married and badly in debt. He sees no way out of his rut until he is invited to participate in a competition to be held in California and sponsored by a Silicon Valley tycoon and “techno-optimist.” The contest is to answer a literal “million-dollar question”: each competitor must compose an eighteen-minute lecture on why our world is still, despite all evidence, the best of all possible worlds, and how we might improve it even further through technology. Entering into a surreal American landscape, Kraft soon finds what’s left of his life falling to pieces as he struggles to justify as “best” a planet in the hands of such blithe neoliberal cupidity as he encounters on his odyssey to California. Still, with the prize money in his pocket, perhaps Kraft could finally buy his way to a new life . . . But what contortions—physical and philosophical—will he have to subject himself to in order to claim it? Jonas Lüscher's second novel, Kraft, is a hilarious and wicked tale about a man facing the ruins of his life, and his world.