Science, Space, Time: Contours of (Croatian) Literary Anthropology
Science, Space, Time: Contours of (Croatian) Literary Anthropology

Summary/Abstract: Literary anthropology is a relatively new terminological syntagm, which grew out of the recent tendency to establish hybrid disciplinary practices. Its field of interest partly converges with that of folklore literary criticism, a discipline which is itself processual not only due to the literary "tradition" as its subject, but also due to the changes within its methodological tradition. Croatian folkloristics has for a long time cultivated a rather ambivalent relationship towards literary anthropology, although it had simultaneously — almost unwillingly — offered a relevant referential framework to this unstable but intriguing field. Namely, through its numerous and important incursions into the interpretation of the so-called "high-brow" culture, as well as its recent problematization of borders between the oral and the written literary corpus, it joined the concomitant contributions to the deconstruction of the opposition between the text and the context, parallelly flourishing in the Croatian ethnology.

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