Ocasião: The Marquis and the Anthropologist, a Collaboration

by George E. Marcus and Fernando Mascarenhas

Book Overview

Distinguished anthropologist George Marcus and his co-author Fernando Mascarenhas engage in a new experiment in anthropological writing. Ocasi o reveals the key relationship between anthropologist and subject through the letters and commentaries exchanged between Marcus and Mascarenhas, Marques of Fronteira and Alorna in Portugal. The authors discuss the persistence and survival of the contemporary Portuguese nobility, who serve as witnesses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759107777
• ISBN13: 9780759107779
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Altamira Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 8.9"