JB3 BEING interdisciplinary MAY BE VERY HARD to do

BUT IT IS HARDLY IMPOSSIBLE combining the social history of reading with fieldwork reports? This does not mean that the disciplinary gap is or should be wholly closed prematurely, for to do so might foreclose some insights that the respective general orientations of anthropology and literature have to offer each other. Stark portrayal of the question of meaning in reading as collective recitation, where comprehension per se is not the issue, should pose a compelling challenge to the still-prevalent literary tendency to analize reading in terms of disembodied decoding of inherent meanings. Evocation òf the particular power of reading NAMES leads us to the larger insight that “THE CLAIMS WE MIGHT MAKE OF KNOWING ABOUT (comprehending) what particulars there are worth knowing & remembering!” On the other hand, literary scholars are a type of native informant, professionally concerned with not only practicing but understanding the topic at hand in our collection. Thus there is a particular poignancy to the way we trace the modern ideology of masterly critical reading to a representation of Yesj reading the Gospel òf Luke. This kind of ability to commit oneself to strong readings - RICH, DARING, ÀND INNOVATIVE INTERPRETATIONS - while simultaneously acknowledging & examining the contingency of those readings, should encourage more anthropologists to look for similar double optics in the reading situations they study.
As JB explained in introducing the AAA session, his title was inspired by two sources. The first was the landmark collection WRITING CULTURE: we noted that while anthropologists & critics had taken to the analysis of ethnography as a cultural practice, they needed similarly to examine reading “OUT THERE” in ethnographic context. Much attention has been paid in the last several years to the insight that literary methods & questions can provide concerning the implication of anthropology in power-laden representations of difference. we have only begun to explore how the kind of attention to the shifts of meaning in context that characterize the best ethnography can complement the new sense literary scholars have òf reading as culturally & historically determined.
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