Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from a Moroccan Space of Memory

by Stefania Pandolfo

The image of the ethnographer in the field who observes his or her subjects from a distance while copiously taking notes has given way in recent years to a more critical and engaged form of anthropology. Composed as a polyphonic dialogue of texts, Stefania Pandolfo's Impasse of the Angels takes this engagement to its limit by presenting the relationship between observer and observed as one of interacting equals and mutually constituting interlocuters...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226645320
• ISBN13: 9780226645322
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 397 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"