Romantic Motives: Essays on Anthropological Sensibility

296 Pages·1996·2.03 MB·English

by  George W. Stocking Jr.

Romantic Motives
HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Volume 1
Observers Observed
Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork
Volume 2
Functionalism Historicized
Essays on British Social Anthropology
Volume 3
Objects and Others
Essays on Museums and Material Culture
Volume 4
Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others
Essays on Culture and Personality
Volume 5
Bones, Bodies, Behavior
Essays on Biological Anthropology
ESSAYS ON
ANTHROPOLOGICAL SENSIBILITY
Edited by
George W. Stocking, Jr.
HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Volume 6
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Romantic motives: essays on anthropolo¢ical sensibility I edited by
George W. Stocking, Jr.
286 p. em. - (History of anthropology ; v. 6)
Includes bibliographies and index.
1. Anthropology-Philosophy. 2. Anthropology-History.
3. Romanticism.
w.,
L Stocking, George Jr., 1928- II. Series.
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HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY
EDITOR
George W. Stocking, Jr.
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
EDITORIAL BOARD
Talal Asad
Department of Anthropology, New School for Social Research
James A. Boon
Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
James Clifford
Board of Studies in the History of Consciousness,
University of California, Santa Cruz
Donna J. Haraway
Board of Studies in the History of Consciousness,
University of California, Santa Cruz
Curtis M. Hinsley
Department of History, Northern Arizona University
Dell Hymes
Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia
Henrika Kuklick
Department of History and Sociology of Science,
University of Pennsylvania
Bruce G. Trigger
Department of Anthropology, McGill University
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Contents
ROMANTIC MOTIVES AND THE HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY
3
ARISTOTLE'S OTHER SELF:
ON THE BOUNDLESS SUBJECT OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL DISCOURSE
Gregory Schrempp
10
ANTIPODAL EXPECTATIONS:
NOTES ON THE FORMOSAN "ETHNOGRAPHY"
OF GEORGE PSALMANAZAR
Susan Stewart
44
SPEAKERS OF BEING:
ROMANTIC REFUSION AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Thomas de Zengotita
74
LEVI-STRAUSS, WAGNER, ROMANTICISM: A READING-BACK ...
James A. Boon
124
ZUNIS AND BRAHMINS:
CULTURAL AMBIVALENCE IN THE GILDED AGE
Curtis M. Hinsley
169
THE ETHNOGRAPHIC SENSIBILITY OF THE 1920s
AND THE DUALISM OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL TRADITION
George W. Stocking, Jr.
208
INDEX
277
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Romantic Motives