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- W2322139375 abstract "Claude Levi-Strauss begins Tristes Tropiques with a declamation against travel accounts. He is bewildered by their popularity and suspicious of their intentions. Travel books, he claims, have helped to preserve the illusion of something that no longer exists (1972: 39). Yet, Tristes Tropiques is as much the narrative of a voyage as it is an ethnographic description and it therefore accentuates a relationship between the traveler and the ethnographer. Although the majority of travelers in the past clearly did not view themselves as professional ethnographers, modern ethnohistorians and historical anthropologists have frequently used their accounts as a source of ethnographic data, and histories of the anthropological discipline often include discussions of such notable travelers as Herodotus and Marco Polo (Hodgen 1964). While contemporary ethnologists tend to regard fieldwork and participant observation as their primary methods of data collection, a century ago anthropologists depended almost entirely on the accounts of missionaries and merchants, traders and travelers for their ethnographic material. As Stocking (1983b) has recently reminded us, Notes and Queries was originally directed to travelers and non-anthropologists who might provide the raw data for the armchair ethnologist at home. This collection of papers, generated from among a group of scholars with varying intellectual and cross-cultural interests, has as its focus an interdisciplinary and critical examination of travel literature. Its goal is to encourage dialogue about the merits of travel accounts as sources for ethnohistorical research. The papers, therefore, range widely both in historical period (seventeenth to nineteenth centuries), and in kinds of people they are discussing (Australian aborigines, Mediterranean peasants, South American Indians, Neapolitan and Venetian urbanites). Throughout the world, travelers have made observations about peoples and places that are of interest to scholars, and no matter where one works and how one works (as a historian, literary critic, or ethnographer), if one wants to learn about the past or about historical context, delving into travelers' accounts of foreign peoples and foreign places becomes a necessity. The heterogeneity of the papers in this volume is an indication of the shared epistemological questions with which any researcher must approach this literature. In their analyses of diverse bodies of travel literature, the authors of these papers touch upon a number of issues, though by no means all, related to the use of travel accounts in ethnohistorical research. This introduction will attempt to outline some of these issues in order to set the papers into a broader context of discourse. To a certain extent, the issues overlap because they all revolve around the problem of how the ethnohistorian distinguishes the cultural baggage which the traveler brings with him and through which he sees the world from the actual observations he makes and records. It is no accident that the questions which can be asked in the process of evaluating travel accounts can and are being asked of ethnographies themselves. Of central importance, as Clifford (1980: 209) has recently" @default.
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- W2322139375 title "Introduction: Travel Literature, Ethnography, and Ethnohistory" @default.
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