Literature and AnthropologyPhilip Adams Dennis, Wendell M. Aycock Literature and Anthropology consists of a collection of papers written by anthropologists, writers, and literary scholars in reference to a multitude of topics such as ethnographic mystery novels, Caribbean literature, anthropological poetry and shamanism. These papers were selected by an interdisciplinary committee at Texas Tech on the basis of their individual merits. |
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... Criticism in the 1940s and 1950s . Linguistic structuralism and some forms of French New Criticism in the 1970s and 1980s perpetuate this dichotomy between form and content . Theoretical complexes such as these tend to reduce the ...
... Criticism in the 1940s and 1950s . Linguistic structuralism and some forms of French New Criticism in the 1970s and 1980s perpetuate this dichotomy between form and content . Theoretical complexes such as these tend to reduce the ...
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... criticism illustrates a type of contemporary cultural lag . That is , it existed in American anthropology before being expounded independently in France by Lévi - Strauss . It then took a considerable length of time for his theories to ...
... criticism illustrates a type of contemporary cultural lag . That is , it existed in American anthropology before being expounded independently in France by Lévi - Strauss . It then took a considerable length of time for his theories to ...
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... criticism constitutes an effort to recover from the epic uniformity of apotheosis the suppressed and forgotten acts of injustice against individuals . Perhaps Octavio Paz ( 1950 ) has peopled his fiestas with otherwise silent ...
... criticism constitutes an effort to recover from the epic uniformity of apotheosis the suppressed and forgotten acts of injustice against individuals . Perhaps Octavio Paz ( 1950 ) has peopled his fiestas with otherwise silent ...
Contents
MAKING MYSTERIES WITH NAVAJO MATERIALS | 5 |
FICTIONAL | 15 |
Point of View in Anthropological Discourse | 31 |
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