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2. Subjective Beginnings: Autoethnography and the Partial Gazes of Gerald of Wales

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction 1
  4. 1. Conquest, Conversion, Crusade, Salvation: The Discourse of Anthropology and Its Uses in the Medieval Period 11
  5. 2. Subjective Beginnings: Autoethnography and the Partial Gazes of Gerald of Wales 37
  6. 3. Writing Ethnography “In the Eyes of the Other”: William of Rubruck’s Mission to Mongolia 57
  7. 4. Casting a “Sideways Glance” at the Crusades: The Voice of the Other in Joinville’s Vie de Saint Louis 88
  8. 5. Dis-Orienting the Self: The Uncanny Travels of John Mandeville 113
  9. Conclusion 145
  10. Notes 149
  11. Bibliography 181
  12. Index 195
  13. Acknowledgments 201
In Light of Another's Word
This chapter is in the book In Light of Another's Word
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208979.37

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction 1
  4. 1. Conquest, Conversion, Crusade, Salvation: The Discourse of Anthropology and Its Uses in the Medieval Period 11
  5. 2. Subjective Beginnings: Autoethnography and the Partial Gazes of Gerald of Wales 37
  6. 3. Writing Ethnography “In the Eyes of the Other”: William of Rubruck’s Mission to Mongolia 57
  7. 4. Casting a “Sideways Glance” at the Crusades: The Voice of the Other in Joinville’s Vie de Saint Louis 88
  8. 5. Dis-Orienting the Self: The Uncanny Travels of John Mandeville 113
  9. Conclusion 145
  10. Notes 149
  11. Bibliography 181
  12. Index 195
  13. Acknowledgments 201
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