Exploring the written : anthropology and the multiplicity of writing
- Oslo : Scandinavian University Press, 1994
- 342 p.
- Oslo studies in social anthropology .
Oral culture, media culture, and the Islamic resurgence in Turkey / Michael E. Meeker -- The authority of a text: Mexico through the words of others / Marit Melhuus -- Models of masculinity in the poetics of the Argentinian tango / Eduardo P. Archetti -- Constructions of self and society in autobiographical accounts: a Scandinavian life story / Marianne Gullestad -- The author as anthropologist: some West Indian lessons about the relevance of fiction for anthropology / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Maui, the trickster god -- a possible role model for living in a fictionalized world / Ingjerd Hoëm -- Tarzan and the lost races / Alan Barnard -- On the margin: letter exchange among Andean non-literates / Sarah Lund Skar -- Legal texts and historical interpretation: an Andean ethnography of reading / Joanne Rappaport -- The moulding of identity in South Pacific poetry and prose. The mode of mimesis: a new way of addressing the issue in Fiji / Solrun Williksen-Bakker -- "Reading culture" / Signe Howell.