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On the Relevance of the Classics to Anthropology: Critically Re-engaging an Old Argument
Ist Teil von
She hui, 2020-01, Vol.40 (2), p.42
Ort / Verlag
Shanghai: Shanghai University
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
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Sociological Abstracts
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Most of the founders of anthropology attached great importance to the classics. By contrast, in the early half of the 20th century, anthropologists rarely thought of relating their ethnographic findings and theories to the subject. In Anthropology and the Classics published posthumously, Clyde Kluckhohn, one of the leading American cultural anthropologists, reflected on the change. Kluckhohn reviewed the history of reciprocity between the two important human sciences and forcefully argued for building a new bridge between them. He argued that the foundations of anthropology were humanism and science. These were laid during the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, but they were deeply rooted in ancient Greek "cultural grammar" and its intellectual expressions. For modern anthropology to recover its humanist and scientific vitality, as Kluckhohn insisted, it was necessary to go back to the classics whereby the (Western) anthropologists could (1) dig deeper into the history of their discipline(s) and (2) include t