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Anthropologists love Herodotus with his 'ethnographic inquiries'. Thucydides 'did not need these particulars': he had naked human nature, and a lesson, as he says, to last forever.
"In a historiography without anthropology our accounts are reduced to the implicit common sense of the historian's own tribe -- ethnocentricity taken for universality."
But Thu became our model for 'scientific history', rather than Hdt.
— Jul 16, 2015 06:57AM
"In a historiography without anthropology our accounts are reduced to the implicit common sense of the historian's own tribe -- ethnocentricity taken for universality."
But Thu became our model for 'scientific history', rather than Hdt.
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Bryn Hammond
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"There is an awful lot of culturological terrorism going on these days, in the humanities and social sciences both, the complement it seems of the popular academic notion that culture is basically power."
Righto. I am an anti-power campaigner myself.
— Jul 20, 2015 05:31PM
Righto. I am an anti-power campaigner myself.
Bryn Hammond
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127-37 extended baseball analogy.
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I guess it's better than the cricket
— Jul 17, 2015 04:35AM
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I guess it's better than the cricket
Bryn Hammond
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Puts the Peloponnesian War side by side with the Polynesian War, for purposes of... being cheeky (he says); also, to see "...what difference anthropology might make, and more particularly, what difference a concept of culture could make to our inherited historiography."
Marshall Sahlins is wise and witty, and 84. Still, he published a book 2 years ago; and I have his list to read.
— Jul 14, 2015 05:25AM
Marshall Sahlins is wise and witty, and 84. Still, he published a book 2 years ago; and I have his list to read.
