Brill's companion to classics and early anthropology /

Brill's companion to classics and early anthropology /

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 col...

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Other Authors: Varto, Emily.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2018]

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 16.
Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online IV, ISBN: 9789004360280.

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Anthropology > History.
Classical philology.

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Call Number: GN17 .B73 2018

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Table of 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.