Original scientific paper

Allochronism and Salvage Ethnography. Michael Donley in Korcula

Ivona Grgurinović ; Odsjek za etnologiju i kulturnu antropologiju Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb

Abstract

The author analyzes the travel text by Michael Donley, Marco Polo’s Isle. Having established that certain characteristics make the text paraethnographic, the author reaches for the concepts of salvage ethnography, since Donley’s text attempts to textually document a vanishing way of life, and Fabian’s concept of denial of coevalness,
subsumed in Donley’s thought: “Not [disembarking] into some grim,
nondescript port, but straight into history” (Donley 2005:14).

Keywords

writing; ethnography; salvage ethnography; denial of coevalness

Hrčak ID:

94122

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/94122

Publication date:

14.12.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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