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Item Details
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ROMANTIC MOTIVES
ESSAYS ON ANTHROPOLOGICAL SENSIBILITY |
| By: |
George W. Stocking (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£19.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
029912360X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780299123604 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 1989 |
| Series: |
History of Anthropology S. Vol 6 |
| Pages: |
280 |
| Description: |
Draws attention to "romanticism", which has influenced the development of anthropology, although the role played by the Romantic sensibility has been undervalued. All the essays included seek to explore and identify a romantic motif in anthropology. |
| Synopsis: |
In "Romantic Motives", George Stocking and his colleagues call attention to romanticism. This tradition has influenced the development of anthropology, although the role played by the romantic sensibility has been undervalued. The essays gathered here deal with a variety of topics, but all seek to identify and explore a romantic motif in anthropology. Gregory Schrempp considers an issue relevant to the analysis of romanticism - whether there is a fundamental contradiction between the conditions of possibility of scientific knowledge. Written from the perspective of contemporary criticism, Susan Stewart's "Antipodal Expectations" deals with issues of authorship and authenticity by focusing on George Psalmanazar, whose work foreshadowed important concerns of the romantics. The two central essays by Thomas de Zengotita and James Boon deal more directly with figures and themes usually associated with the romantic movement. Reading forward from the romantic era, de Zengotita emphasizes the repression of the original romantic impulse in the professional anthropological descendants of two of romanticism's founding figures - Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Johann Herder.Reading backward from the present, Boon explores the influence of romanticism on the work of Levi-Strauss, the leading figure of modern structuralist anthropology. The final essays by Curtis Hinsley and George Stocking treat manifestations of the primitivist yearning for unbroken community and the implications of that yearning for the possibility of anthropological knowledge. |
| Illustrations: |
24 illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Wisconsin Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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