Ethnography as Relation: The Significance of the French Caribbean in the Ethnographic Writing of Michel Leiris

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Britton,Celia (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2012-01
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    French Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    66(1) : 41-53
    ISBN:
    0016-1128
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, Ethnology, Cesaire, Aime, 1913-2008, Relation (philosophy), Intellectuals, and Leiris, Michael
    Notes:
    Considers two kinds of connection between Leiris and the French Caribbean: that between his ideas on ethnography and Martinican Édouard Glissant's concept of Relation; and the impact that his encounter with the French Caribbean had on those ideas.

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