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Title Choice and morality in anthropological perspective : essays in honor of Derek Freeman / edited by G.N. Appell and T.N. Madan
Published Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1988

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 248 pages) : portrait
Contents Part I. Introduction -- Derek Freeman : Notes Toward an Intellectual Biography / G.N. Appell and T.N. Madan -- Introduction to the Essays / G.N. Appell -- Part II. Theoretical Constructs, Meaning, and the Analysis of Choice Behavior -- Emergent Structuralism: The Design of an Inquiry System to Delineate the Production and Reduction of Social Forms / G.N. Appell -- From Choice to Meaning / George Devereux -- Corpus Morale Collectivum : Social Anthropology Without Tears? / Peter Lawrence -- The Morality of Exchange / D.K. Feil -- Part III. Filial Ambivalence and the Moral Order in Choice Behavior -- Like Father, Like Son : Filial Ambivalence and the Death of Fathers in Kalauna / Michael W. Young -- The Son as Savior : A Hindu View of Choice and Morality / T.N. Madan -- Part IV. The Dialectic Between Destiny and Decision : Nomothetic and Ideographic Conceptions of Anthropology -- The Ethnographer's Choices / Gilbert H. Herdt -- In the Thrown World : Destiny and Decision in the Thought of Traditional Africa / Michael Jackson -- Part V. Biological Givens and Symbol Choice -- The Fetal and Natal Origins of Circumcision and Other Rebirth Symbols / Michael A.H.B. Walter
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Freeman, Derek
SUBJECT Freeman, Derek fast
Subject Choice (Psychology) -- Cross-cultural studies
Ethics -- Cross-cultural studies
Ethnology -- Psychology
Symbolic interactionism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
Choice (Psychology)
Ethics
Ethnology -- Psychology
Symbolic interactionism
Keuzegedrag.
Ethiek.
Genre/Form Festschriften
Cross-cultural studies
Feestbundels (vorm)
Interculturele vergelijkingen (vorm)
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Freeman, Derek
Appell, George N
Madan, T. N
ISBN 0585059357
9780585059358