Romantic Motives: Essays on Anthropological Sensibility (Volume 6) (History of Anthropology)

Romantic Motives explores a topic that has been underemphasized in the historiography of anthropology. Tracking the Romantic strains in the the writings of Rousseau, Herder, Cushing, Sapir, Benedict, Redfield, Mead, Lévi-Strauss, and others, these essays show Romanticism as a permanent and recurrent tendency within the anthropological tradition. Contents 8 Romantic Motives and the History of Anthropology 12 Aristotle's Other Self: On the Boundless Subject of Anthropological Discourse / Gregory Schrempp 19 Antipodal Expectations: Notes on the Formosan "Ethnograqphy" of George Psalmanzar / Susan Stewart 53 Speakers of Being: Romantic Refusion and Cultural Anthropology / Thomas De Zengotita 83 Levi-Strauss, Wagner, Romanticism: A Reading-back . . . / James A. Boon 133 Zunis and Brahmins: Cultural Ambivalence in the Gilded Age / Curtis M. Hinsley 178 The Ethnographic Sensibility of the 1920s and the Dualism of the Anthropological Tradition / George W. Stocking, Jr. 217 Index 286 Romantic Motivesexplores a topic that has been underemphasized in the historiography of anthropology. Tracking the Romantic strains in the the writings of Rousseau, Herder, Cushing, Sapir, Benedict, Redfield, Mead, Levi-Strauss, and others, these essays show Romanticism as a permanent and recurrent tendency within the anthropological tradition Draws attention to "romanticism", which has influenced the development of anthropology, although the role played by the Romantic sensibility has been undervalued. All the essays included seek to explore and identify a romantic motif in anthropology.