Culture and the Legacy of Anthropology

Maristella Gatto is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Bari (Italy). Alessandra Squeo is Researcher and Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bari, where she teaches English Literature and Culture. Maristella Trulli is Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Bari.

CONTENTS: Alessandra Squeo: The humanist and the anthropologist: Victorian notions of culture in Matthew Arnold and Edward Burnett Tylor – Laura Chiara Spinelli: Thomas Henry Huxley on culture: Science and humanities in Victorian England – Readings from: Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy (1869), Edward Burnett Tylor: Primitive Culture (1871), Thomas Henry Huxley, «Science and Culture» (1880) – Maristella Gatto: From «armchair» to «open-air» anthropology: Views of culture in James George Frazer and Bronisław Malinowski – Readings from: James George Frazer: ‘The scope of social anthropology. A lecture delivered before the University of Liverpool’ (1908), Bronisław Malinowski: «Culture», in Encyclopedia of Social Sciences (1931) – Angela Di Gennaro: Franz Boas: A brand new perspective for the study of culture – Angela Di Gennaro: The multifaceted nature of culture(s): Edward Sapir’s in-depth analysis – Angela Di Gennaro: Benjamin L. Whorf: Language as the key to understanding culture – Lorena Carbonara: In search of a plural language: Rethinking Ruth Benedict’s new and old patterns of culture – Readings from: Franz Boas: «Early Cultural Traits» (1911), Edward Sapir: «Culture, Genuine and Spurious» (1924), Benjamin Lee Whorf: «A linguistic consideration of thinking in primitive communities» (1936), Ruth Benedict: Patterns of Culture (1934) – Cristina Consiglio: No tradition, no culture-history: Introduction to Lawrence’s «America, Listen to Your Own» – Maristella Trulli: A theory in progress: Before and after Eliot’s Strange Gods – Rosanna Damato: T. S. Eliot’s homogeneous culture in After Strange Gods – Lorenza Cervellera: Forster’s «Does Culture Matter?» and other essays – Elisa Fortunato: «Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose»: Notes on «T. H. Huxley as a Literary Man» – Giovanna Epifania: Interdisciplinarity and transculturalism in Ezra Pound’s Guide to Kulchur – Readings from: D. H. Lawrence: «America, Listen to Your Own» (1920), T. S. Eliot: After Strange Gods (1934), E. M. Forster: «Does Culture Matter?» (1935), Aldous Huxley: «T. H. Huxley as a Literary Man» (1936), Ezra Pound: Guide to Kulchur (1938).


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