The peer-reviewed journal of Generative Anthropology, founded by Eric Gans at UCLA. Published 1995–2024 (Vols 1–30), featuring essays by Van Oort, Bartlett, Dennis, Ludwigs, McKenna, Goldman, Eshelman, Gans, Girard, and others.
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About Our Contributors Jean-Loup Amselle is professor at the EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales – Faculty of Advanced Study in the Social Sciences) and editor of the Cahiers d’etudes...
The 2013 Generative Anthropology Summer Conference, “Putting the Human Back into the Humanities,” was notable, by common observation, for the intensity and depth of its intellectual engagements. An...
EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) 54 boulevard Raspail 75006 Paris amselle@atacama.ehess.fr One should first of all note that, in this as in other cases, the fact that we are...
English Department University of Victoria P.O. Box 3070 STN CSC Victoria, BC V8W 3W1 Canada rvanoort@uvic.ca I am not an anthropologist. I have written no ethnographic studies of non-Western...
English Department University of Ottawa Ottawa, ON Canada, K1N 6N5 idennis@uottawa.ca It will likely surprise few university or college teachers to be told that one finds reflected in the modern...
Department of English Black Hills State University Spearfish, SD 57799 Martin.Fashbaugh@bhsu.edu I In Deceit, Desire, and the Novel , René Girard famously claims the reason for the scarcity of...
Department of English Quinnipiac University Hamden, CT 06518 Adam.Katz@quinnipiac.edu However paradoxical it may seem, I venture to suggest that our age threatens one day to appear in the history of...
The authors included in this issue all participated in the 2013 GASC at UCLA, although not all their texts are taken from their conference presentations. All are seasoned contributors to...
School of Humanities University of Western Sydney Penrith South DC NSW 1797 Australia c.fleming@uws.edu.au School of Social Science and Liberal Studies, Charles Sturt University Bathurst NSW...
Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies Athabasca University Athabasca, AB T9S 3A3 Canada rfoshay@athabascau.ca In Chapter 8 of Originary Thinking , entitled “High Art and the Classical Esthetic,” Eric...
theludwigs@comhem.se In Ann Beattie’s short story entitled “Janus,” the protagonist, Andrea, is a real estate agent who has a mysterious relationship with an enigmatic white bowl. The bowl is both an...
Department of Modern Languages & Literatures Loyola University of Chicago Chicago IL 60626 amckenn@luc.edu “What is it in us that reacts to art? It is sobering to think that such a fundamental...
Symbol Intelligence Group dperlmutter@symbolintelligence.com The apparent universality of the cultural concept (1) would tend to suggest that purity is an inherent quality of the sacred. From René...
elw33@hermes.cam.ac.uk The purpose of this article is to reveal the extent to which knowledge claims in communication that purport to be true should always be supported by the human virtue of faith....