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WORLD ANTHROPOLOGICAL UNION

CONGRESS 2024​

Paper

A Comparison of Poetic Anthropology in Africa and China - Presents Our Reflections on the Construction of the Discipline

presenters

    Hong SHEN

    Nationality: China

    Residence: China

    Kobe City University of Foreign Studies

    Presence:Online

Keywords:

poetic anthropology, Africa, China

Abstract:

We will evaluate panel papers in order to make some introduction on the specific contribution of the content of the paper. The significance of the quality course construction carried out by the African Research Institute of Zhejiang Normal University. Academic exchange on the topic of Poetic anthropology in Africa and China; interdisciplinary African studies design; for both China and Africa, poetry has gone through different and unique development processes that are different from Western poetry. Africa has a long and colorful history of poetry writing tradition, and the earliest poetry and writing can be traced back to the hunting poems of prehistoric Africa and the court songs of praise and sorrow in the Nile, Niger and Volta River basins. The earliest written poems in Africa were inscriptions in the pyramids of the 25th century BC. The earliest poems that have survived on the African continent are not poetry as it is understood today, and with a little rhyme, alliteration, or rhythm, incantations or early religious texts can be incorporated into the category of poetry. This paper compares the style of ancient African poetry writing with that of the oldest known heroic epic in the world, the Gilgamesh Epic (2000-1000 BC) of the Mesopotamian civilization in West Asia, and the Sumerian cuneiform script in West Asia, which was the earliest version of the script engraved on clay tablets, with that of the Egyptian seyrus, which is both pictographic and pinyin abstract.