Writing History for Eternity
Lucian's (c120-200) Contributions to Pragmatist Scholarship and Ethnographic Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2365254 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Prus (0000-0001-9310-974X, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 62-78 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0891241607303964 |
| OpenAlex | W2003519515 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 9 |
Whereas ethnography is generally envisioned as a nineteenth- and twentieth-century development, a text on How to Write History developed by Lucian (a Greek-speaking Syrian in the classical Roman era) provides an instructive reference point for contemporary scholarship. Envisioning history as an account of some event or developmental feature of community life, Lucian insists that these accounts will be of greatest value when written for posterity rather than "the historical moment." While identifying a number of lesser flaws and more substantial failures in people's attempts to develop histories, Lucian also indicates how these projects might more viably be pursued. Approaching Lucian's text as an instance of transhistorical scholarship as well as a cross-cultural reference point for ethnographic analysis and building on a somewhat parallel commentary developed by Michael Schwalbe (1995), this article considers the lessons of both statements for contemporary considerations of human group life
Art · Epistemology · Eternity · Ethnography · Literature · Scholarship · Sociology · Value (mathematics · African history and culture analysis · Anthropology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · History · Law · Philosophy · Study and Philosophy of Religion
Examining Community Life “in the Making
Engaging Love, Divinity, and Philosophy
Kenneth Burke’s Dramatistic Pragmatism
Defending Education and Scholarship in the Classical Greek Era
Love, Despair, and Resiliency
Religious Beliefs, Practices, and Representations as Humanly Enacted Realities
Poetic Expression and Human Enacted Realities
Charisma, Magic, and Spirituality as Socially Engaged Processes
Religion, Platonist Dialectics, and Pragmatist Analysis
Love, Friendship, and Disaffection in Plato and Aristotle
Morality, Deviance, and Regulation
Lucian, Fronto, and the Absence of Contemporary Historiography under the Antonines
Encountering Nature, Experiencing Courtly Love, and Romance of the Rose
Ethnographic Trailblazers
Aristotle’s Theory of Deviance and Contemporary Symbolic Interactionist Scholarship
On Studying Ethnologs (Not Just People, Societies in Miniature)
On the Necessity of Re-engaging the Classical Greek and Latin Literatures
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,89 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2021 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |