A “Steady Eye” in “A Moving World”
Comparative Perspectives on Travel Writing and Ethnography
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Jörg Lehmann
Jörg Lehmann
Freie Universität Berlin lehmann@germ.unibe.ch
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Thomas Stodulka
Thomas Stodulka
Freie Universität Berlin thomas.stodulka@fu-berlin.de
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How can travel books and narrative ethnography be compared? This article systematically examines the works of an eminent travel writer and an anthropologist with respect to paratexts, themes, lexis, named entities, and narrative positions. It combines quantitative methods with a close reading of three books. The article discusses whether a mixed-methods approach of close reading and quantitative analysis can be applied to comparing larger corpora of travel writing and ethnography.