Classic concepts in anthropology /

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Author / Creator:Valeri, Valerio, author.
Imprint:Chicago : Hau Books, [2018]
©2018
Description:1 online resource (ix, 265 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12379182
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Other authors / contributors:Da Col, Giovanni, editor.
Stasch, Rupert, editor.
Westwater, Lynn, translator.
Harney, Nicholas DeMaria, translator.
Hill, Sarah, translator.
Elliot, Alice, editor, translator.
Rimbault, Eléonore, translator.
Mengozzi, Stefano, translator.
ISBN:9780990505082
0990505081
Notes:The late anthropologist Valerio Valeri (1944-98) was best known for his substantial writings on societies of Polynesia and eastern Indonesia. This volume, however, presents a lesser-known side of Valeri's genius through a dazzlingly erudite set of comparative essays on core topics in the history of anthropological theory. Offering masterly discussions of anthropological thought about ritual, fetishism, cosmogonic myth, belief, caste, kingship, mourning, play, feasting, ceremony, and cultural relativism, Classic Concepts in Anthropology, presented here with a critical foreword by Rupert Stasch and Giovanni da Col, will be an eye-opening, essential resource for students and researchers not only in anthropology but throughout the humanities.--from resource homepage.
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Summary:The late anthropologist Valerio Valeri (1944-98) was best known for his substantial writings on societies of Polynesia and eastern Indonesia. This volume, however, presents a lesser-known side of Valeri's genius through a dazzlingly erudite set of comparative essays on core topics in the history of anthropological theory. Offering masterly discussions of anthropological thought about ritual, fetishism, cosmogonic myth, belief, caste, kingship, mourning, play, feasting, ceremony, and cultural relativism, Classic Concepts in Anthropology, presented here with a critical foreword by Rupert Stasch and Giovanni da Col, will be an eye-opening, essential resource for students and researchers not only in anthropology but throughout the humanities.