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(Duke University Press, 2022)

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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 Andr Breton, Salvador Dal, Marcel Duchamp, Margot Fonteyn, Charles Olson, Claude Lvi-Strauss, and many more of the twentieth century’s major artists and intellectuals. InAtlantis, an Autoanthropologyhe 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.Atlantis, an Autoanthropologyprompts us to consider our own multiple selves and the mysteries contained within.