Atlantis an Autoanthropology

Over the course of his long career Nathaniel Tarn has been a poet anthropologist and book editor while his travels have taken him into every continent. Born in France raised in England and earning a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago he knew André Breton Salvador Dalí Marcel Duchamp Margot Fonteyn Charles Olson Claude Lévi-Strauss and many more of the twentieth century's major artists and intellectuals. In <i>Atlantis an Autoanthropology</i> he writes that he has never (yet) been able to experience the sensation of being only one person. Throughout this literary memoir and autoethnography Tarn captures this multiplicity and reaches for the uncertainties of a life lived in a dizzying array of times cultures and environments. Drawing on his practice as an anthropologist he takes himself as a subject of study examining the shape of a life devoted to the study of the whole of human culture. <i>Atlantis an Autoanthropology</i> prompts us to consider our own multiple selves and the mysteries contained within.