Why compare Aby Warburg, talented cultural and art historian, creator of the eponymous library, and Leo Frobenius, pioneer of primitive art studies and the father of modern Africanism? Not merely for biographical reasons. The work of Warburg and Frobenius offers two clear examples of a cultural and scientific trend between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, which aspired to the organization of universal knowledge, in order to establish a method for the study of the most unstable field of human culture.

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在文化史中寻找方向：Aby Warburg 和 Leo Frobenius 关于 Ifa-Board 的形态学研究

为什么要比较才华横溢的文化和艺术历史学家、同名图书馆的创建者 Aby Warburg 和原始艺术研究的先驱、现代非洲主义之父 Leo Frobenius？不仅仅是因为传记的原因。Warburg 和 Frobenius 的工作提供了两个明显的例子，说明了 19 世纪末和 20 世纪初之间的文化和科学趋势，他们渴望组织普遍知识，以便建立一种方法来研究人类文化中最不稳定的领域。