Anthropologies of Transmission and Theologies of Creation

Recently Joel Robbins has argued that sociocultural anthropology ought to engage critically with theology in order to recapture the "promise" of understanding otherness. Both anthropology and theology have long focused on questions of transmission, or the circulation and uptake of socially mediated forms through time. Linguistic anthropologists have paid particularly close attention to processes of replication, or creative repetition.

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