Romanticism and holism in the anthropology of the West (revisiting Bergson's paradox)
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
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| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Departamento de Antropologia Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social Museu Nacional; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Quinta da Boa Vista, s/n - São Cristóvão Rio de Janeiro 20940-040 Brazil |
| ANO | 2015 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Anthropological Theory |
| ISSN | 1463-4996 |
| E-ISSN | 1741-2641 |
| EDITORA | SAGE Publications |
| DOI | 10.1177/1463499614567690 |
| CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
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Resumo
The anthropology of the West, as a project of comparative knowledge of the multifarious human experience, depends on a positive disposition towards difference and holism, both as an empirical focus and as a method – in opposition to the scientific style inherited from the Enlightenment and its naturalistic and individualistic bases. This outward movement of anthropology obeys another, subordinate yet essential, ideological dimension of Western cosmology, here described as Romanticism. The paradox implied by a quest for a distant difference and the oblique awareness of the internal cultivation of difference is the key for a critical analysis of contemporary 'postmodern' anthropological tendencies.