koepping

K繹pping (anthropology, U. of Heidelberg) uses the metaphor of anthropologist as trickster to highlight how they venture out to engage Otherness, then reconstruct their experience in texts. Colleagues from around the world celebrate his 65th birthday with 15 studies pivoting around the notion. Among their topics are soiled work and the artifact, inheriting forsaken souls in Bali, and the concatenation of minds. Annotation 穢2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)