Generative Anthropology and the Mahabharata: Cognition, Narrative, Culture - Anthropoetics
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This paper will investigate connections amongst Eric Gans’s theory of Generative Anthropology (GA), cognitive studies (most of all in the area of cognitive anthropology) and the Hindu mythological narratives of the Mahabharata. We will begin by identifying the Mahabharata as primarily a form of narration, a mode of verbal representation seemingly natural to human consciousness.[1] […]