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...Joyce Cheng Abstract This essay examines the primitivist art theories of the surrealist milieu, focusing on the concept of magic. The first part shows how, informed by early twentieth-century ethnological theories, the surrealist poets like André Breton, Louis Aragon, and Jules Monnerot evoked...

... peoples—but will also have to draw upon other disciplines: they name philosophy, aesthetics, ethnology, and “anthropology in general” as close neighbors (179–80). The fact that comparative literature is described here as a “science of the future” draws attention to Schulz and Rhein’s arguable...

... of the various foreign lands, not their collective identity as a spatialized Other, contrasted with the civilized center of li 禮 (ritual propriety, t he most important Confucian principle). Strange Nations proved of great interest to a group of ethnological and archaeological experts at Cambridge...

... informative and primeval ethnological-literary-historical reminiscences and similar treasures. 7 Accordingly, decaglotism will assume a leading role only in the interests of a prudent economy and restriction, without having the slightest pretentions to distinction, or any claims to precedence at all...

... an African Notebook,” each no more than a sentence and having no relation to one another. Scholars who today are unknown author many contributions, such as A. V. Lester’s linguistic description of “‘Clicking’ in the Zulu Tongue.” The final section, “Negro Sculpture and Ethnology,” consists mainly...

... Sédar Senghor engage with the work of the primitivist French writer Paul Morand in key early essays of the negritude movement, I offer an additional source for negritude’s primitivism—beyond the familiar interlocutors of surrealism and European ethnology—in order to unpack some of the tensions...

... and its effects on French poetry after Mallarmé (22–26) as well as on the understanding of speech in terms of agonistics and performance that defined Marcel Granet’s Sinology and post-Durkheimian ethnology (28). Hain-teny , Paulhan observed, involved a conflict between debating speakers of varying...

... Press, 1980 . Pagden, Anthony. The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982 . Patterson, Orlando. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982 . Peltonen...

..., a project inherited from the spirit of the sixties in which ethnology privileged autarchic visions” (9). Instead, he fi nds it more interesting “to exam- ine the cultural history of representations . . . formalized around forms of categorization and validation which produce a semantic fi eld of rich...

..., a project inherited from the spirit of the sixties in which ethnology privileged autarchic visions” (9). Instead, he fi nds it more interesting “to exam- ine the cultural history of representations . . . formalized around forms of categorization and validation which produce a semantic fi eld of rich...

... from “a history of native and postcolonial resistance, a project inherited from the spirit of the sixties in which ethnology privileged autarchic visions” (9). Instead, he fi nds it more interesting “to exam- ine the cultural history of representations . . . formalized around forms...

..., a project inherited from the spirit of the sixties in which ethnology privileged autarchic visions” (9). Instead, he fi nds it more interesting “to exam- ine the cultural history of representations . . . formalized around forms of categorization and validation which produce a semantic fi eld of rich...

... Jonson’s Epigrams as well as his major plays dramatizes, as it were, the transformation of the encyclopedic (even proto-ethnological) convention of Theophrastian “characters” or Renaissance “humors” into what we now call characters (in both plays and novels)—and, to pluralize Jonson’s title, Out...

... Jonson’s Epigrams as well as his major plays dramatizes, as it were, the transformation of the encyclopedic (even proto-ethnological) convention of Theophrastian “characters” or Renaissance “humors” into what we now call characters (in both plays and novels)—and, to pluralize Jonson’s title, Out...

... the mobility and changefulness of the world it repre- sented” (143). A very dense and convincing chapter on Ben Jonson’s Epigrams as well as his major plays dramatizes, as it were, the transformation of the encyclopedic (even proto-ethnological) convention of Theophrastian “characters” or Renaissance...

... Jonson’s Epigrams as well as his major plays dramatizes, as it were, the transformation of the encyclopedic (even proto-ethnological) convention of Theophrastian “characters” or Renaissance “humors” into what we now call characters (in both plays and novels)—and, to pluralize Jonson’s title, Out...

... the mobility and changefulness of the world it repre- sented” (143). A very dense and convincing chapter on Ben Jonson’s Epigrams as well as his major plays dramatizes, as it were, the transformation of the encyclopedic (even proto-ethnological) convention of Theophrastian “characters” or Renaissance...

... that “they have a son purified by the earth, the water, by blood and fire / A man unbeaten [ indompté ] and maybe unbeatable [ indomptable ]” (15). While ethnological scholarship has all but debunked the myth of the cannibal Carib people, 5 Métellus preserves their warfaring as Caonabo’s principal...

...- ing philosophy, ethnology, anthropology, psychology, and sociology. Within the humanities, systems and empirical approaches have been a point of departure in Itamar Even-Zohar’s polysystem theory, Siegfried J. Schmidt’s empirical study of literature (Empirische Literaturwissenschaft), Jacques...

... of the pre-Enlightenment universalist order of the cos- mos. Their collections were broken up and sent to specialized museums of art, natural history, ethnology, botanical gardens, and so on, although the Real Gabinete’s foundation (in 1771) and eventual dispersal (around 1867) lag behind by more than...