Comments on: RIP Jean-Pierre Vernant

By: John McCreery

John McCreery — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:14:21 +0000

Where would you place the recent work of Mary Douglas, e.g.,

Leviticus as Literature (1999),

In the Wilderness: The Doctrine of Defilement in the Book of Numbers (2001),

Jacob’s Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation (2004) ?

By: Rex

Rex — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:27:59 +0000

I admit: Fustel de Coulanges

By: SLS

SLS — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:56:25 +0000

Everything Rex said, and Fustel de Coulanges (post-Herodotean encounters between Classics and Anthropology) too. This spurred me to reflect on my own task: staking out a living in the space where Anthropology, Linguistics and ancient Semitic Philology meet. Unlike Classics, where the tradition continues with people like Gregory Nagy and Jesper Svenbro, it’s a space that is still being carved out–some days I get a glimmer of the way Vernant and his colleagues may have felt when they were making these connections…

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Most loved and revered classical scholar « Entertaining Research — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:25:59 +0000

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