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Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions

Hemer, Oscar. 2020. Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-349...

Oscar Hemer Oscar Hemer

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Writing Across Borders – In Praise of Impurity

The idea of combining and possibly merging ‘ethnography’ and ‘fiction’ emanates from my research on literature’s role in the transition processes of South Africa and Argentina (Fiction and Truth in Transition : Writing the present past in South Africa and Argentina,2012), which brought me in the end, to my own surprise, to the crossroads of Literature and Anthropology.

Oscar Hemer Oscar Hemer
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