Beyond Textuality: Asceticism and Violence in Anthropological Interpretation

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Beyond Textuality

Asceticism and Violence in Anthropological Interpretation

Edited by: Gilles Bibeau and Ellen E. Corin

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1995

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Volume 120 | Approaches to Semiotics [AS]

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i-iv Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	v
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	xiii
Introduction
From submission to the text to interpretive violence Gilles Bibeau and Ellen E. Corin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
Part I. Ascetic readings of the text: Proximity and fidelity
From cosmology to ontology through resonance: A Chinese interpretation of reality Charles Le Blanc Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	57
The Demon of Ashes in Sanskrit text and Himalayan ritual John Leavitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	79
The Great Sign in the Book of Revelation – Le chant du signe Jacques M. Chevalier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	111
British cannibals: Contemplation of an event in the death and resurrection of James Cook, explorer Gananath Obeyesekere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
Part II. Text and sub-text: The grounding of interpretive violence
Meaning games at the margins: The cultural centrality of subordinated structures Ellen E. Corin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173
Transgression and transition: Confession as a sub-text in Maasai ritual John G. Galaty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
Murder on Mount Austen: Kwaio framing of an act of violence Roger M. Keesing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	209
Part III. Divination as interpretation from within
How to say things with assertive acts? About some pragmatic properties of Senoufo divination Andras Zempléni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
The ghost in the machine: Etiology and divination in Japan Mary Picone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	249
The truths of interpretations: Envy, possession and recovery in Ladakh Patrick Kaplanian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	271
Part IV. The cooperative work in interpretation
The subject of knowledge Jérôme Rousseau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	289
Egocentric particulars: Pronominal perspectives in ethnographic inquiry James W. Fernandez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	303
Conclusion
Beyond postmodernism: Resonant anthropology Pierre Maranda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	329
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	345

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December 1, 1994

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364

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Kulturanthropologie; Aufsatzsammlung

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