The ceremonial animal : a new portrait of anthropology / Wendy James ; with a foreword by Michael Lambek.
Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.Description: xxiii, 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0199263337 (acidfree paper)
- GN345 .J42 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-354) and index.
I: The quest for pattern. Key questions in anthropology -- Dialogues with grand theory -- II: Shape and rhythm in social forms. Species, space, and time -- Life in motion : daughters of the dance -- Ritual, memory, and religion -- III: Language and the making of persons. Speech and social engagement -- The dialectics of gender and generation -- Human bodies, social persons, and conscious selves -- IV: Practice, production, and politics in the ceremonial arena. The "home-made" patterns of livelihood -- Towards large-scale modern forms -- From local to global peace and war -- V: Concluding essay. Anthropology as a human science : conversations with history and religion.
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