Beyond metaphor : the theory of tropes in anthropology /
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| Imprint: | Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©1991. |
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| Description: | x, 298 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy 4 has original dust jacket. |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1150426 |
Table of Contents:
- Polytropy / Paul Friedrich
- The cultural basis of metaphor / Naomi Quinn
- Metaphor and experience : looking over the notion of image schema / Hoyt Alverson
- "We are parrots," "twins are birds" : play of tropes as operational structure / Terence Turner
- Embedding and transforming polytrope : the monkey as self in Japanese culture / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
- Tropical dominions : the figurative struggle over domains of belonging and apartness in Africa / Deborah Durham, James W. Fernandez
- Reasonable and unreasonable worlds : some expectations of coherence in culture implied by the prohibition of mixed metaphor / Dale Pesmen
- The Japanese tea ceremony : coherence theory and metaphor in social adaptation / Benjamin N. Colby.