Chronicles of Love & Resentment is an essay series by Eric Gans, founder of Generative Anthropology. Each chronicle reflects on culture, language, politics, religion, or the human condition through the lens of the originary hypothesis. Published continuously since 1995, the series now comprises over 874 entries.
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The Originary Hypothesis: The Sacred
Readers of these Chronicles will have noticed that in the past year or two they have been largely focused on the phenomenon of the sacred—the second, along with language, of the two “coeval” elements that, in his Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity (Cambridge, 1999), Roy Rap…
Recent Entries
No. 873Apr 5, 2026The Originary Hypothesis of Language Origin — Part INo. 872Mar 8, 2026A Minimal AnthropologyNo. 871Feb 28, 2026Post-Millennial Antisemitism: The Lessons of October 7 and February 28No. 870Feb 14, 2026The root of the human and its cultureNo. 869Feb 14, 2026Toward an East-West GA synthesis?
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