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The word "romantic" has long carried negative connotations within anthropology meaning the tendency to idealize, exoticize, or seek out the irrational. Instead, through a focus on the themes of science, nature, art, intuition, systematicity and creativity, we suggest that romantic philosophy has offered and continues to offer much of interest for contemporary anthropology. Drawing on readings in philosophy, anthropology, science and literature, we explore the long suppressed romantic legacy of anthropology.