Abstract

SANCHES, Manuela Ribeiro. Writing from the armchair or envying the field. Etnográfica [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.2, pp.413-436. ISSN 0873-6561.

The present essay proposes a journey through time and space, revisiting an academic and theoretical trajectory between travel (narratives) and anthropology, considering the decisive role of both to rethink disciplines, epistemologies and the corresponding objects and borders, also introducing the praise of the nostalgia for the distant, ultimately always narrated from an immobile place. The text is not intended to be autobiographic, but rather offers a pretext to linger and reflect upon the seduction and necessity of the task of comparison and translation that anthropology still stands for.

Keywords : travel literature; anthropology and literature; post-coloniality; translation and comparison.

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