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= Overview =
''Note: This website is a work in progress.''
'''Generative anthropology''' is a field of study based on the hypothesis that the origin of human language happened in a singular event. The discipline of Generative Anthropology centers upon this original event which Eric Gans calls the Originary Scene. This scene is a kind of origin story that hypothesizes the specific event where language originated. The Originary Scene is powerful because any human ability: our ability to do science, to be ironic, to love, to think, to dominate, etc can be carefully explained first by reference to this scene of origin.
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Because The Originary Scene was the origin of all things human; Generative Anthropology attempts to understand all cultural phenomena in the simplest terms possible: all things human can be traced back to this hypothetical single origin point.
= What is Generative Anthropology? =
'''Generative Anthropology (GA)''' hypothesizes that the origin of language and human culture occurred in a single event. This hypothesis forms the basis for an [[anthropomorphics]], a "human science" which provides a radically minimal and powerful vocabulary that can explain all cultural, social, and political phenomena as articulations of the basic speech forms ([[ostensive]] -> [[imperative]] -> [[declarative]]). This new human science gives us a lens through which we can recognize the inherent paradoxes in both reductionist biological accounts and overloaded religious accounts of the origin of the human.


= About this Wiki =
This wikipedia serves as an interconnected glossary of terms for students of this new human science.
 
== Get Started ==
Interested in learning about GA? Here are some resources to get you started:
* [[Why GA?]]
* [[FAQ]]
* [[Recommended Path of Study for Beginners]]
* [[History of Generative Anthropology]]
* [[:Category:GA Basics|GA Basics]]
 
== About this Site ==
The goal of this website is to create a comprehensive GA learning resource, including:
 
* A glossary of GA terminology. Some definitions were initially crossposted from [https://theglossary.home.blog/generative-anthropology/ this glossary], but will be expanded as the site is worked on.
* GA literature, such as posts from [http://dennisbouvard.substack.com/ Dennis Bouvard's substack], [http://gablog.cdh.ucla.edu/ gablog], or [https://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ anthropoetics].

Latest revision as of 23:36, 24 April 2023

Note: This website is a work in progress.

GA-Cover-1.jpg

What is Generative Anthropology?

Generative Anthropology (GA) hypothesizes that the origin of language and human culture occurred in a single event. This hypothesis forms the basis for an anthropomorphics, a "human science" which provides a radically minimal and powerful vocabulary that can explain all cultural, social, and political phenomena as articulations of the basic speech forms (ostensive -> imperative -> declarative). This new human science gives us a lens through which we can recognize the inherent paradoxes in both reductionist biological accounts and overloaded religious accounts of the origin of the human.

This wikipedia serves as an interconnected glossary of terms for students of this new human science.

Get Started

Interested in learning about GA? Here are some resources to get you started:

About this Site

The goal of this website is to create a comprehensive GA learning resource, including:

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