Brill's Companion to Classics and Early Anthropology

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Emily Varto
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.
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2018
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17 Jul 2018
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978-90-04-24936-3
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12 Apr 2018
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Introduction to The Classics and Early Anthropology
Part 1 Primitivism and Progress: The Classics in Early Ethnology
Chapter 1 Dialogue among Cellmates: Lucretius, Horace, and Lewis Henry Morgan
Chapter 2 The Tinted Lens of Ancient Society: Classical History and American Experience in the Ethnology of Lewis Henry Morgan
Chapter 3 Culture and Classics: Edward Burnett Tylor and Romanization
Chapter 4 From Motherkin to the Great Goddess: Matriarchal Myth in Anthropology and the Classics
Chapter 5 Otis T. Mason and Hippocratic Environmental Theory at the Smithsonian Institution in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Part 2 Classics and the Science of Man: Customs, Religions, and Beliefs
Chapter 6 The Feast and Commensal Politics: Ancient Greek Prefigurations of Anthropological Concerns
Chapter 7 The Anthropology of an Island Cult: Samothrace and the Science of Man in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 8 Arboreal Animists: The (Ab)use of Roman Sacred Trees in Early Anthropology
Chapter 9 Colourblind: The Use of Greek Colour Terminology in Cultural Linguistics in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Part 3 Anthropological and Classical Others: Theories, Methods, and Approaches
Chapter 10 Pinpointing Pausanias: Ethnography, Analogy, and Autopsy
Chapter 11 Marcel Mauss, The Gift, and the Oral Theory
Chapter 12 The Magna Graecia of Ernesto de Martino: Studying Ancient and Contemporary Evil Eye
Chapter 13 Anthropology and the Creation of the Classical Other
Chapter 14 Comparativism Then and Now
Emily Varto, Ph.D. (University of British Columbia), is Associate Professor of Classics at Dalhousie University. She publishes on early Iron Age Greek kinship and housing, ancient genealogy and historiography, as well as on the classics in early anthropology.

Contributors are: Sandra Blakely, Franco De Angelis, Thérèse de Vet, Cynthia Eller, Melissa Funke, Eliza Gettel, Ailsa Hunt, Rebecca Futo Kennedy, Daniel Noah Moses, Irene Salvo, William Michael Short and Maurizio Bettini, Kevin Solez, Daniel Stewart, and Emily Varto

Anyone interested in classical reception and tradition and the disciplinary and intellectual histories of classics and social sciences. Anyone interested in the origins and history of common anthropological and sociological theories.
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