Rama Evolution Of Literature From The Perspective Of Anthropology

The two major ancient Indian Epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata,shine with dazzling splendour in Indian history and world literatureespecially Ramayana which has profound and lasting influence on Indiaand Southwest Asia countries in literature and was called “the initialpoem” in the past two thousand years. The poem created in the period ofhuman childhood manifests its poetic wisdom and is filled with purityand simplicity. Therefore, the feature of originality in the poem is not thesubstitution of savagery, on the contrary, what it embodies is a kind ofprimitive culture and the simplest human’s recognition on society andnature.Cultural anthropology appeared as a discipline following theknowledge globalization while literary anthropology esplored therelationship between literature and human beings regarding culture as thebond. Literary anthropology is interdisciplinary and its theory is tointerpret literature in the context of culture and humanity, which bringsnew inspiration for further literary research. As a matter of fact, theinterpretation of text is the interpretation of culture, meanwhile the interpretation of culture constitutes the interpretation of human oneself.Therefore, concentrating on culture means concentrating on humandestiny. Literary anthropology emphasizes the character of interdisciplineand mutual communication (i.e. establishing a sort of connection anddialogues between remote antiquity and modern). At the same time, thisresearch pespective focuses on the functions of psychiatry and disaster inliterature.shielded by modern literature.Absolutely, exploring Ramayana from the perspective of literaryanthropology has some significance. This thesis attempts at studying theworks from four factors including vast social contents, mysterious culture,the psychiatric function of literature and functions of disaster andsignificance of modern interpretation so as to uncover the primitiveculture covering history, religion, custom and so forth hidden inRamayana and comprehend ancient times humanity’s veneration andworship of goddness and adhering to religious belief in order to find thespiritual home for the lost soul, reconstructing the temple of faith andcultivate a piece of fertile soil to nourish one’s own soul under the heavypressure of modern society.