Short abstract: This panel aims to take on the challenge of expanding the field of anthropology t... more Short abstract: This panel aims to take on the challenge of expanding the field of anthropology towards fictional novels and films, and the question to be raised is: if we accept ethnography as a semi-fictional genre, the ethnographer as an auteur, and the monograph as a chronotope, what can the anthropological thought gain by a turn towards fiction? Long abstract: In the past, the anthropology of art focused almost exclusively on collective works of traditional art, or on individual revisions of similar themes, traced back to the world of mythology and cosmology. In this sense, it distinguished between traditional (i.e. 'indigenous') works of art, from modern art, in terms of non-fiction and fiction respectively. Questions of authorship and modernity in anthropology challenged this distinction, highlighting a general affinity between ethnographic vision and fiction (Needham 1984, Clifford and Marcus 1986, Turner 1987, Clifford 1988, Deveraux and Hillman 1995, Barba 1995, Fo...
Francisco Javier y la empresa misionera jesuita. Asimilaciones entre culturas, ed. Ignacio Arella... more Francisco Javier y la empresa misionera jesuita. Asimilaciones entre culturas, ed. Ignacio Arellano y Carlos Mata Indurain, Pamplona, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2012 (BIADIG, Biblioteca Aurea Digital-Publicaciones digitales del GRISO), pp. 295-303. ISBN: 978-84-8081-338-9. CHARLES DELLON’S RELATION DE L’INQUISITION DE GOA AS A SITE OF CONFLICT BETWEEN A THEOCENTRIC AND AN ANTHROPOCENTRIC WORLD1
A year after his arrest by the Inquisition in Daman, Charles Dellon in his book Relation de l’Inq... more A year after his arrest by the Inquisition in Daman, Charles Dellon in his book Relation de l’Inquisition de Goa recalls that in 1675, I had entertained the most pernicious intentions, and that my design was to teach and inculcate heretical opinions; that I had consequently incurred the penalty of the greater Excommunication; that my property was confiscated to the crown, and myself delivered over to the secular power, to be punished for my crimes according to law, that is, to be burnt (p. 106). This accusation pronounced by the Inquisition in Goa encompasses the long-standing conflict between Reformation and Counter-Reformation, between the urge to maintain an ancient theocracy and the urge to replace it with the anthropo-cracy of human industry, a conflict that had begun during the renaissance and had been carried into the colonies of the two maritime powers of the time, Spain and Portugal. The journeys of discovery and the «heretical » means that made them possible, undermined th...
Short abstract: This panel aims to take on the challenge of expanding the field of anthropology t... more Short abstract: This panel aims to take on the challenge of expanding the field of anthropology towards fictional novels and films, and the question to be raised is: if we accept ethnography as a semi-fictional genre, the ethnographer as an auteur, and the monograph as a chronotope, what can the anthropological thought gain by a turn towards fiction? Long abstract: In the past, the anthropology of art focused almost exclusively on collective works of traditional art, or on individual revisions of similar themes, traced back to the world of mythology and cosmology. In this sense, it distinguished between traditional (i.e. 'indigenous') works of art, from modern art, in terms of non-fiction and fiction respectively. Questions of authorship and modernity in anthropology challenged this distinction, highlighting a general affinity between ethnographic vision and fiction (Needham 1984, Clifford and Marcus 1986, Turner 1987, Clifford 1988, Deveraux and Hillman 1995, Barba 1995, Fo...
Francisco Javier y la empresa misionera jesuita. Asimilaciones entre culturas, ed. Ignacio Arella... more Francisco Javier y la empresa misionera jesuita. Asimilaciones entre culturas, ed. Ignacio Arellano y Carlos Mata Indurain, Pamplona, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2012 (BIADIG, Biblioteca Aurea Digital-Publicaciones digitales del GRISO), pp. 295-303. ISBN: 978-84-8081-338-9. CHARLES DELLON’S RELATION DE L’INQUISITION DE GOA AS A SITE OF CONFLICT BETWEEN A THEOCENTRIC AND AN ANTHROPOCENTRIC WORLD1
A year after his arrest by the Inquisition in Daman, Charles Dellon in his book Relation de l’Inq... more A year after his arrest by the Inquisition in Daman, Charles Dellon in his book Relation de l’Inquisition de Goa recalls that in 1675, I had entertained the most pernicious intentions, and that my design was to teach and inculcate heretical opinions; that I had consequently incurred the penalty of the greater Excommunication; that my property was confiscated to the crown, and myself delivered over to the secular power, to be punished for my crimes according to law, that is, to be burnt (p. 106). This accusation pronounced by the Inquisition in Goa encompasses the long-standing conflict between Reformation and Counter-Reformation, between the urge to maintain an ancient theocracy and the urge to replace it with the anthropo-cracy of human industry, a conflict that had begun during the renaissance and had been carried into the colonies of the two maritime powers of the time, Spain and Portugal. The journeys of discovery and the «heretical » means that made them possible, undermined th...
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