Generative Anthropology Summer Conference 2011, May 19-21

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Indicative Culture

http://jcrt.typepad.com/jcrt_live/2009/06/indicative-culture.html

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The Holy Grammar of Presence

Eric Gans’ talk at the Ottawa GA conference on June 20 (http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/views/vw375.htm) articulated the problem of victimary discourse in relation to the originary scene in what, I think, is a new way.  Gans had already re-situated scapegoating (for Rene Girard the founding moment of the human) within the emergence of hierarchical orders, which themselves emerged [...]

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