Log in Free trial  Anthropological Approaches to Italian
Literature: An Introduction  Article excerpt  At the basis of
AdI 1997 lies the documented awareness that literature and
anthropology have always shared much more than common interests.
Literature in fact constitutes a major cultural manifestation of
the human person, the same human person that is also at the
center of all anthropological investigations. Literature itself
has always drawn the interest of anthropologists, who have
formally recognized the study of literature (or literary
anthropology) in order to tap the written records' richest
sources of documentation for the synchronic and diachronic
investigation of humankind's ideas and behaviors. Within this
context of shared interests and interrelatd approaches, the
authors whose work appears in AdI 1997 have set out to
investigate the multiple interconnections of literature and
anthropology in their theoretical framework and literary
manifestations and to apply warranted anthropological strategies