Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. Acknowledgments VII
4. Culture/Contexture: An Introduction 1
5. PART ONE. Narrative Fields
6. 1. The Culture in Poetry and the Poetry in Culture 37
7. 2. The Story of the Jackal Hunter Girl 58
8. 3. Fresh Lima Beans and Stories from Occupied Cyprus 84
9. 4. Narrative Ethnography, Elite Culture, and the Language of the Market 105
10. 5. Exogamous Relations: Travel Writing, the Incest Prohibition, and Hawthorne's Transformation 132
11. 6. The World in a Text: How to Read Tristes Tropiques 156
12. PART TWO. Identity Markings
13. 7. Ethnic Selves/Ethnic Signs: Invention of Self, Space, and Genealogy in Immigrant Writing 175
14. 8. Turks as Subjects: The Ethnographic Novels of Paul Geiersbach 195
15. 9. Narrative, Genealogy, and the Historical Consciousness: Selfhood in a Disintegrating State 214
16. 10. Race and Ruins 235
17. 11. Race under Representation 249
18. PART THREE. Unsettling Texts
19. 12. Reading Culture: Anthropology and the Textualization of India 275
20. 13. Ghostlier Demarcations: Textual Phantasm and the Origins of Japanese Nativist Ethnology 296
21. 14. The Construction of America: The Anthropologist as Columbus 323
22. 15. Crushed Glass, or, Is There a Counterpoint to Culture? 357
23. CONTRIBUTORS 377
24. Index 381