“I Felt So Tall Within”: Anthropology in Slave Narratives
Abstrakt
„W środku czułem się tak dumny” – antropologia w narracjach niewolników
„Co to znaczy być człowiekiem w obliczu niewoli”. Autor analizuje trzy autobiograficzne dokumenty afroamerykańskich niewolników z XVIII/XIX wieku (Sojourner Truth, Victoria Albert i Frederick Douglass), pytając, czy pozwalają one dokonać nowego wglądu w antropologię. Niewolnicy są w stanie zachować swoje człowieczeństwo w obliczu fizycznej i ideologicznej jego negacji, potrafią oddzielić swoją cielesną kondycję od poczucia człowieczeństwa. Wszelkiego rodzaju deprywacje pokazują, paradoksalnie, to, co jest istotne dla człowieka – w niniejszym studium są to religia, imię i opór. Autor pokazuje również, w jakim zakresie do struktur niewolnictwa znajduje zastosowanie antropologia René Girarda.
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