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Volume 8,Issue 8
12 December 2025
A Brief Analysis of the Development Context and Theoretical Concerns of Literary Anthropology
Tengyue Ma ,
Jing Shen
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Yunnan University Southwest Frontier Ethnic Minority Research Center, Kunming 650091, Yunnan, China,
ssr 2025 , 7(11), 322–334;
https://doi.org/10.26689/ssr.v7i11.13086
Abstract
The disciplinary practice of literary anthropology is mainly reflected in the two directions of the anthropologicalization of literature and the literaryization of anthropology. In this process of transformation and integration, the expansion of the category of “text”, the sharing of the methodology of “field”, and the construction of “expression” have become the core discourse of literary anthropology. On this basis, the practical research of literature also provides a new ideological path for the theoretical development of literary anthropology.
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