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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.
“This is a very interesting book which addresses a worthwhile topic in a rounded, incisive, exploratory yet informative manner.” • Jeremy MacClancy, University of Oxford
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.
List of Illustrations
Introduction: At the Crossroads of Doubt
Horatiu Burcea
Part I: Bridging Travel Literature: Travelogues and Anthropology
Chapter 1. What Distinguishes Ethnography from Travel Writing? Historical Roots of an Identity Crisis
Michael Herzfeld
Chapter 2. Variations of the ‘Writer’s Ethos’ among Travellers and Anthropologists, from Experience to Writing: Nigel Barley’s Sense of Humour
Odile Gannier
Chapter 3. Henry Adams in the South Seas: an Anthropological Temptation?
Pierre Lagayette
Part II: Pseudo-Science and Proto-Ethnography
Chapter 4. Missionary Travel Writing and Anthropological Knowledge on the Map of the British Empire, 1865-1920
Maud Michaud
Chapter 5. The End of Racial Science? Measuring Difference in the Torres Straits, 1898-1899
Elise Smith
Chapter 6. From Fiction to Fieldwork: Robert Louis Stevenson as Accidental Anthropologist in the Pacific
Kevin Cristin
Part III: Ways of Seeing
Chapter 7. Painting as Ethnological Travel Documentation: George Catlin and Karl Bodmer in the Trans-Mississippi West
Robert Sayre
Chapter 8. Anthropology and the Doubtful Visions of the Pacific: Masking the Mediation of the Traveler’s Gaze
Laura Singeot
Chapter 9. ‘To the Land of the Rising Sun’: Frederick Horniman’s Travels in Japan
Ryan Nutting
Part IV: Reflexive Narratives and Identities
Chapter 10. Among the Asians: Isabella Bird-Bishop’s ‘Magnificent Savages’
Floriane Reviron-Piegay
Chapter 11. Imperial Spouses and Female Travelees in Central Asia
Irina Kantarbaeva-Bill
Chapter 12. Exploring Alaska Native Identity through Observation of its Landscapes in Barry Lopez' Arctic Dreams
Benjamin Ferguson
Conclusion
Horatiu Burcea
Bibliography
Index