The Time at Darwin's Reef Poetic Explorations in Anthropology and History

by Brady, Ivan

• ISBN13: 9780759103351
• ISBN10: 0759103356
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-21
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

The Time at Darwin's Reef is primarily a book of storytelling through mixed genres--verse, prose, and painting. Brady's work is designed to draw out key dimensions of the poetics of anthropology and history embedded in creative writing--in the mix and on the margins of verse and prose, painting and writing, fiction and fact--to revisit the sometimes academically resistant idea that there is more than one way to say (and therefore to see) things.

Author Biography

Ivan Brady is Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Oswego.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	x
Introduction	xiii
I. GATEWAY
Alone on the Bayou	2	(1)
Sea Cream	2	(2)
Diving in Desecheo	4	(2)
II. MYTHICS
They Knew Places Where	6	(1)
Fale Tapu	7	(1)
The Spring	8	(2)
Fire Knees (Or, Not Eating Raoul)	10	(2)
Gilbertese Warrior	12	(2)
When You Were Here	14	(1)
Foot Queries	15	(2)
Predator	17	(2)
Jaguar	19	(3)
Spot of the Cat	22	(2)
Archaeology?	24	(2)
Yellowmouth Moon	26	(3)
Translated Text	29	(2)
Wiccan Moon Water	31	(1)
Sulphur	32	(2)
A Gift of the Journey	34	(2)
III. HISTORY IN PIECES
The Passing of Monica Harmon	36	(2)
Midnight Swim	38	(2)
Letter from Laurie	40	(3)
Island Chains	43	(1)
The Equation	44	(3)
Journal Entry	47	(2)
Hukulika Island	49	(2)
Proem for the Queen of Spain	51	(3)
Para Donde Vas	54	(9)
Shipwreck	63	(3)
Dead Painting	66	(3)
IV. Shades of Science
The Time at Darwin's Reef	69	(8)
Dolphins in the Desert	77	(1)
The Cage of Air	78	(2)
The Shape of Time	80	(1)
Fresh Wind	81	(1)
Cannibal-ism	82	(1)
Behaviorism	83	(1)
Memory Sweep	84	(2)
V. SELF AND OTHER
Port of Call	86	(1)
Resistance Failed	87	(1)
Fieldwork Pastiche	88	(1)
Border Work	89	(2)
Combate Beach	91	(3)
Pueblo Canyon	94	(8)
Bones of the Moon	102	(3)
The Visitor	105	(1)
Waterfront Dream	106	(2)
VI. SEMIOTICA
Tattoo	108	(1)
Mojave Codes	109	(1)
Tahitian Flower	110	(2)
Tramp Steamer	112	(2)
Festival	114	(1)
Nosferatu Rising	115	(2)
Killing Death	117	(2)
My Friend Henry	119	(1)
St. Patrick's Day	120	(2)
Show Me a Sign	122	(3)
Torn Shawl	125	(1)
Pipers	126	(1)
Deep Ideas	127	(1)
Place List	128	(2)
Date List	130	(2)
Praise for The Time at Darwin's Reef	132	(2)
About the Author / About the Artist	134