Comparative Literature as Textual Anthropology

Comparative Literature as Textual Anthropology

In his article, "Comparative Literature as Textual Anthropology," Antony Tatlow proposes textual anthropology as a critic's approach in the comparative study of literature. If anthropology is "behavioural hermeneutics" (Clifford Geertz) with the implication of self-reflexivity, the anthropologist will be disposed to fashion in the object of attention what is neglected and that can therefore be ...

European Comparative Literature as Humanism

In his article "European epistemological reflection on comparative l between different forms of knowledge. the "humanities" replaced that of the humanist concept of knowledge linked to ethics. about the nature of knowledge and on the debate rational forms of knowledge. The idéologues and Humboldt were at the heart of this epistemological debate already been related to the question of humanism i...

Bioarchaeology as Anthropology

Scientists' perceptions of their discipline clearly influence how they frame their research agenda. Seeing bioarchaeology as anthropology profoundly affects the problems that capture one's interest, the questions that one seeks to answer, and the methods one uses to resolve them. Bioarchaeology as anthropology reaffirms a worldview that incorporates an intradisciplinary biocultural approach wit...

NEW POLISH ANTHROPOLOGY Despite the fact that anthropology in Poland faces the same crisis as anthropology

Despite the fact that anthropology in Poland faces the same crisis as anthropology worldwide, namely, the disappearance of the traditional subjects of interest, it still maintains, a unique theoretical and methodological perspective, the main points of which are: holism, qualitative methods, methodical skepticism and a focus on the primacy of culture. This approach also appears to be useful in ...

Translation as Metaphor in Psychoanalysis, Anthropology and Ethnography, Postcolonial Theory, History and Literature