Brill's companion to classics and early anthropology / edited by Emily Varto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Varto, Emily.

Series:

Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 16.

Brill's companions to classical reception, 2213-1426 ; v. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--History.

Anthropology.

Classical philology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 406 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

The chapters in Brill’s Companion to Classics and Early Anthropology explore key points of interaction between classics and anthropology from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Ancient Greece and Rome played varying roles in early anthropological thinking, from the observations of colonial officials and missionaries, through the ethnography and evolutionary ethnology of the late nineteenth century, and into the professionalized social sciences of the twentieth century. The chapters illuminate these roles and uncover an intellectual history of fission and fusion, exposing common interests and opposing methodologies, shared theories and conflicting datasets, close collaborations and adversarial estrangements. In augmenting and reevaluating this history, the volume offers a new and nuanced picture of the early formative relationship between the two disciplines.

Contents:

Introduction to The Classics and Early Anthropology / Emily Varto

Primitivism and Progress: The Classics in Early Ethnology / Emily Varto

Dialogue among Cellmates: Lucretius, Horace, and Lewis Henry Morgan / Daniel Noah Moses

The Tinted Lens of Ancient Society: Classical History and American Experience in the Ethnology of Lewis Henry Morgan / Emily Varto

Culture and Classics: Edward Burnett Tylor and Romanization / Eliza Gettel

From Motherkin to the Great Goddess: Matriarchal Myth in Anthropology and the Classics / Cynthia Eller

Otis T. Mason and Hippocratic Environmental Theory at the Smithsonian Institution in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Rebecca Futo Kennedy

Classics and the Science of Man: Customs, Religions, and Beliefs / Emily Varto

The Feast and Commensal Politics: Ancient Greek Prefigurations of Anthropological Concerns / Kevin Solez

The Anthropology of an Island Cult: Samothrace and the Science of Man in the Nineteenth Century / Sandra Blakely

Arboreal Animists: The (Ab)use of Roman Sacred Trees in Early Anthropology / Ailsa Hunt

Colourblind: The Use of Greek Colour Terminology in Cultural Linguistics in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Melissa Funke

Anthropological and Classical Others: Theories, Methods, and Approaches / Emily Varto

Pinpointing Pausanias: Ethnography, Analogy, and Autopsy / Daniel Stewart

Marcel Mauss, The Gift, and the Oral Theory / Thérèse A. de Vet

The Magna Graecia of Ernesto de Martino: Studying Ancient and Contemporary Evil Eye / Irene Salvo

Anthropology and the Creation of the Classical Other / Franco De Angelis

Comparativism Then and Now / William Michael Short and Maurizio Bettini.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-36500-1

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004365001 DOI