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Conklin, Joyce, and the Wannaknów
Author(s) -
McDermott Ray
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1997.99.2.257
Subject(s) - ethnography , similarity (geometry) , focus (optics) , history , art , literature , archaeology , computer science , artificial intelligence , physics , optics , image (mathematics)
Verbal play among the Hanunóo of Mindoro is surprisingly similar to that practiced by the Dubliners of Ireland. The similarity invites a comparison of the work habits of their scribes: the ethnographer Harold Conklin and the novelist James Joyce. A Joycean version of an ethnography of the Wannaknow is presented as a textual focus for the comparison.