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Is Anthropology a “Contemporary Literature”?

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What is literature? In common sense, we often think that it is the art of writing novels or poems. We associate the word with fiction, with the beauty of language, with style. From that perspective, social sciences would not be literature: they do not invent stories or seek to excite, but to explain. But the etymology of the word invites another look. Literature comes from the Latin litteratura, which means “art of letters”, “use of writing.” In…
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What is literature? In common sense, we often think that it is the art of writing novels or poems. We associate the word with fiction, with the beauty of language, with style. From that perspective, social sciences would not be literature: they do not invent stories or seek to excite, but to explain. But the etymology of the word invites another look. Literature comes from the Latin litteratura, which means “art of letters”, “use of writing.” In…

The Faculty of Communication and Documentation hosts from Wednesday, November 5, and until Friday, the International Congress Against Matrix: Contemporary Meetings on Mobility at the Borders of Fiction, final phase of the R & D FicTrans Project.

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