LITERARY ANTHROPOLOGY A NEW INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO PEOPLE, SIGNS AND LITERATURE -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION -- The genesis of literary anthropology -- The subject of literary anthropology as originally envisaged -- The contributions to this volume -- PART I. SIGNS, CULTURE, AND LITERATURE: TOWARD A THEORY OF LITERARY ANTHROPOLOGY -- LITERARY ANTHROPOLOGY: TOWARD A NEW INTERDISCIPLINARY AREA -- The subject of literary anthropology -- Poetic narrative and functional narrative, and indifferentation and behaviorism -- Nonverbal communication and realism -- The semiotic-communicative basic approach to literary anthropology The sign-typology model -- The semiotic research strategies -- The cultureme model and the diachronic and synchronic approach in literary anthropology -- Culturemes -- Synchronic approach -- Diachronic approach -- Somatic systems in literary anthropology -- Communication and description -- Kinesics -- Other somatic systems -- Man-animal relationships -- Objectual and environmental systems in literature -- Objectual, built, and modified environments -- The built and modified environments -- The natural environment -- The sensory interaction between people and their environment -- The intelligible cultural systems in literature -- Religion -- Society -- Political ideology and attitudes -- Folklore and the arts -- Cultural styles of interaction in literature -- The literary documentation of intersystem relationships -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- LITERATURE AS A SOURCE FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH: THE CASE OF JAROSLAV HASEK'S GOOD SOLDIER SVEJK -- Introduction -- Literature is not a direct reflection of cultural phenomena -- How does all this apply to a specific text? -- The Novel's Syntagmatic Form. How Does it Signify? -- Language -- Conclusion.

REFERENCES -- LA THEORIE CULTURELLE ET LES ETUDES LITTERAIRES: POETIQUE ET ANTHROPOLOGIE LITTERAIRE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART II. NATIONAL NARRATIVES AND ETHNIC NARRATIVES -- DAVY CROCKETT AND MIKE FINK: AN INTERPRETATION OF CULTURAL CONTINUITY AND CHANGE -- Introduction -- Analysis of the syntagmatic axis -- Analysis of the paradigmatic axis -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- BUDDENBROOKS, THOMAS MANN, ANDNORTHGERMAN SOCIAL CLASS: AN APPLICATION OF LITERARY ANTHROPOLOGY -- Introduction -- A literary anthropology of Buddenbrooks -- Representation of social class in Buddenbrooks -- The sensible system: some examples of objectual communication. Furniture, artifacts, food, and the utilization of space. -- Conclusion -- The intelligible system: a Patrician view of social class and its depiction in Buddenbrooks -- Conclusions -- The use of linguistic markers in Buddenbrooks: A test for literary anthropology? -- Conclusions -- Retrospect -- Conclusion -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- ETHNIC CULTURE TEXTS AS NARRATION -- Introduction -- Ethnicity and ethnic text -- Narrative text, culture text, and ethnic text -- The artistic sign -- The texts of Mary Molek and Ivan Molek -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- MYTH AND BRAZILIAN LITERATURE -- Myth and Brazilian literary tradition -- Indianism -- Anthropology -- Conclusions -- NOTES -- THE RECOVERED FRAGMENTS: ARCHEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES IN EDITH WHARTON'S. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- PART III. LITERARY ANTHROPOLOGY OF THREE RURAL WORLDS -- THE BIBLE AND THE HUNGARIAN PEASANT TRADITION: TRANSFORMATIONAL PROCESSES OFBIBLICAL FOLK-NARRATIVES -- The biblical folk narratives -- Individuals, dramatis personae -- Activities -- Cultural systems interpreted on the basis of activities -- Cultural systems that can be interpreted on their own -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.

THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF PAST, PRESENT AND FUTUREIN THE WRITTEN AND ORAL TEXTS OF THE OLD ORDER AMISH: AN ETHNO-SEMIOTIC APPROACH TO SOCIAL BELIEF -- Goals -- Assumptions concerning the object under investigation -- Assumptions concerning the method of investigation -- Historiographicexcursus: Who are the Old Order Amish? -- The social construction of the present: Umwelt vs. Mitwelt -- The social construction of the past: Vorwelt -- The social construction of the future: Folgewelt -- Summary: The OOA Model of Past, Present, and Future -- Re-editing the Vorwelt and the Folgewelt in the literary and the oral traditions,or: literary anthropology as a complement of 'oral' anthropology -- REFERENCES -- TRANSYLVANIAN PEOPLE AND TRANSYLVANIANLITERATURE: AN ATTEMPT AT THE LITERARY-ANTHROPOLOGICALANALYSIS OF TAMÁSI ÁRON'S, PAVEL DAN'S ANDERWIN WITTSTOCK'S SHORT STORIES -- Áron, Dan and Wittstock as representatives of three ethnic groups -- Geography and ethnic differences -- Nature and Soul -- Physical Realism -- Man-man: inter-ethnic relations -- Man and transcendence -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- PART IV. TWO GENRE APPROACHES TO LITERARY ANTHROPOLOGY -- AVANT-GARDE AUTOBIOGRAPHY: DECONSTRUCTING THE MODERNIST HABITAT -- Literary anthropology, habitare and autobiographical text -- Surveying and weaving -- Towards a microanalysis -- The morphology of the metropolis -- The Skyscraper and the metropolitan spirit. -- The morphology of the polis -- Valuta and not value reigns -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE ANTHROPOLOGY IN/OF FICTION: NOVELS ABOUT VOYAGES -- Anthropology and literature -- Anthropology and form -- Anthropology and content -- The voyage -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- SYMPOSIUM ON LITERARY ANTHROPOLOGYTRANSCRIPT OF THE CLOSING DISCUSSION -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.