[New-Poetry] Fw: New anthropology books from University ofMinnesota Press

Edmund Hardy edmundhardy at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 25 19:20:24 EDT 2006


this could be the manifesto for Alien Poetics ...


>They also offer Debord, and many more. I am surprised at the quantity of
books they publish.

Minnesota, Princeton, Yale - they all chuck out a bewildering amount of 
fascinating sounding books - and I haven't finished the Princeton book, 
"Dining posture in Ancient Rome" yet.

E.


I was more into reading the sense of estrangement, exile, and the logic of
difference than the anthropological content advertised; in what the author,
K. Marciniak calls "alienhood"
and continuing:
Alienhood theorizes multicultural experiences of liminal characters that
belong in the interstices between nations.




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