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Ethnographic imagination, adventure novels and flying machines

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No. 49 (2024): Primer Semestre
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1472.2024.75303

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Paul Willis has argued that ethnography is vital in the constitution of a textual, methodological and substantive “sensuality”, but is possible only through the deployment of a conceptual imagination that is not found solely in fieldwork. The fantastic literature of the second half of the 19th century is rich in representations of flying machines and it is not uncommon to find devices with proper names in the adventure stories of explorers during the fin-de-siècle. In this article we present the flying machines that appear in the works of Jules Verne and in the adventures of Frank Reade Jr. The ethnography of the machines, of the flying boats, is a challenge not only practical but also of the imagination

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ethnographical imagination, adventure novels, flying machines, Jules Verne, Frank Reade Jr.

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Quiroz, D. (2024). Ethnographic imagination, adventure novels and flying machines. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (49). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1472.2024.75303
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Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
Universidad de Chile
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