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Reproducing Fictional Ethnographies

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-13425-8

ISBN: 978-3-031-13424-1

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jan 11, 2023

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Surrogate Bodies and Digital Critique

Apostolidou, Anna

Pages: 1 –68

[This chapter lays out the guiding principles of a methodological experiment and asks the reader to consider the possibility that research topics and representational modalities in contemporary anthropology can be paired accordingly so as to develop a unique narrative format for each individual...
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The Literary and the Ethnographic: Fictionalizing Surrogacy

Apostolidou, Anna

Pages: 69 –114

[The second chapter of the book discusses the disciplinary repercussions that derive from the potential merging of various writing genres: standard ethnography, digital fiction, and graphic design. The problem of representational arbitrariness that has troubled anthropology for over a century is...
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Assisted Reproduction as Poetry and Metaphor

Apostolidou, Anna

Pages: 115 –152

[This chapter maintains that the modality of poetry may serve as a central analytical and narrative feature for ethnographic material that deals with corporeal practices, reproductive technologies, and gender-related topics, such as surrogacy. Departing from the connotations of metaphor in...
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When Fictional Ethnography Goes Digital

Apostolidou, Anna

Pages: 153 –191

[This chapter argues that a key contribution of digital humanities to the field of anthropology lies in the generation of imaginative “texts” (artifacts, collages, stories) akin to the field interlocutors’ experiences and narratives. This premise entails new knowledge practices in digitally...
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Epilogue: Un-Disciplining Anthropology

Apostolidou, Anna

Pages: 193 –195

[Re/producing Fictional Ethnographies has emerged out of a viewing of surrogate motherhood as a transformative practice. Not totally disjointed from a genealogy of the cultural underpinnings of fertility but nonetheless distinctively different from it, surrogacy is unique by virtue of the...

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