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Hypertext and Ethnographic Writing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Manuel Gutiérrez Estévez
Manuel Gutiérrez Estévez*
Affiliation:
Universidad Complutense, Madrid
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Abstract

The language of the ethnographer gets ‘stretched’ in an effort to wrap it around the world created by another language. Academic jargon can only disguise this linguistic disorder; hypertext can serve as a kind of therapy, an escape from assertive, monological statements about the other - ‘hard’ hypertextuality, that is. The author explores hypertextuality through the multiplicity of narrative programs that transect an electronic book with five co-authors, through which the reader can navigate as yet another co-author, or bricoleur. The topology of the cadavre exquis offers the image of a foreign culture with which we can establish multiple points of contact.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 53 , Issue 3 , August 2006 , pp. 77 - 91
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 2006

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