Riflessioni sui metodi dell'antropologia letteraria

Literary anthropology brings about a remarkable change of paradigm in literary studies. Human literary behavior is the main object of study, in an investigation that tries to understand human activities related to writing, distributing, and reading objects which - in ways that differ in different cultures - are called literature. Well-organized teamwork is necessary, because we have to deal with large numbers of texts in a project that requires skilled competence in different languages and cultures. Since the dimensions of the field grow enormously - from a limited number of canonical texts written in the same language to all the literatures in the world - it is possible that our research objects will not be individual texts, but textual types, that is generalizations based on the examination of a high number of texts, a representative sampling of the object of our study.