Other tribes, other scribes : symbolic anthropology in the comparative study of cultures, histories, religions, and texts /

Other tribes, other scribes : symbolic anthropology in the comparative study of cultures, histories, religions, and texts /

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Author / Creator:Boon, James A.
Imprint:Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Description:xiv, 303 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Ethnology -- Philosophy
Ethnology -- Methodology
Symbolism
Ethnology -- Methodology.
Ethnology -- Philosophy.
Symbolic anthropology.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/522274
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ISBN:0521250811
0521271975 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 283-300.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part I. Initiations
  • 1. Introduction: the exaggeration of cultures
  • 2. Shades of the history of ethnology
  • Part II. Systematics Notwithstanding
  • 3. Social theories with a difference
  • 4. Assorted semiotics and dialectics
  • Part III. Essays in Exotic Texts
  • 5. Jacobean ethnology: An east-west intercourse
  • 6. Balinese incest recaptured: a discourse
  • 7. Structuralism/Romanticism, reciprocally
  • 8. Conclusion: dead moons or eclipsed?
  • Appendices A-C
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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