Contents
Prologue
Part I. Anthropology: A Fabulatory Art
1. An Encounter in the Mist
2. Talabot
3. Fake
4. Anthropologies and Fictions
5. Knud Rasmussen
6. The Voice of the Thunder
7. Metaphor and/or Metamorphosis
8. “They Aren’t Symbols—They’re Real”
Part II. In Between
9. Liminality: An Old Story?
10. The Dead Have Never Been Modern
11. The God Who Comes
12. Between the Times
13. Anthropology ≠ Ethnography
14. Fabulatory Comparativism
Part III. Gyro Nights: Inhuman Culture/Inhuman Nature
15. Islands before and after History
16. Papay Gyro Nights
17. The Time of the Ancestors?
18. In the Beginning Were the Giants
19. Tiamaterialism
20. Blubberbomb
21. A Globe of Fire
22. Nighttime
Afterword: Anthropology Is Art Is Frog
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index