Foreword from the editors of this volume: On crossing perspectives
Foreword from the editors of this volume: On crossing perspectives

Summary/Abstract: If the reader slowly takes his pleasure on the process of reading by stopping, relaxed and nonchalant, on every single contribution to appreciate its specificity, he may be pleasantly confused by the richness and variety of figures and issues, themes and questions approached in this collective volume: Paul Rabinow, Eric Wolf, Clifford Geertz, Bronislaw Malinowski, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Robert Antelme, Victor Klemperer, Geneviève De Gaulle Anthonioz, Jorge Semprun, Jean Geoffroy, Juri Vella, anthropologists’ diaries, survivors’ diaries, the nature/culture distinction, colonial memory, Estonian events in the 40s, theatre representation, and so on. Studies on less known figures of camp survivors stand side by side with studies on renowned anthropologists, anthropologic reflections on cultural matters alternate with semiotic analyses of literary texts. What is the leading thread bringing into a unitary path such variety and abundance, such apparent diversity?

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