| Description |
viii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Anthropology of form and meaning |
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Anthropology of form and meaning.
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| Contents |
pt.1. Processual analysis Aspects of Saora ritual and Shamanism: an approach to the data of ritual -- Ritual aspects of conflict control in African micropolitics -- Mukanda, boys' circumcision: the politics of non-political ritual -- An anthropological approach to the Icelandic saga -- The Icelandic family saga as a genre of meaning-assignment -- Conflict in social anthropological and psychoanalytical theory: Umbanda in Rio de Janeiro -- Process, system, and symbol: a new anthropological synthesis -- pt. 2. Performance and experience The anthropology of performance -- Experience and performance: towards a new processual anthropology -- Images of anti-temporality: an essay in the anthropology of experience -- pt. 3. The brain Body, brain, and culture -- The new neurosociology -- Epilogue: Are there universals of performance in myth, ritual, and drama? |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 305-318 |
| Subject |
Ethnology.
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Rites and ceremonies.
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Symbolic anthropology.
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Symbolism.
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| Author |
Turner, Edith L. B., 1921-
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| LC no. |
85020885 |
| ISBN |
0816509492 |
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