Not in Ourselves, But in Our Stars

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. General Editor's Preface V
3. Preface IX
4. Table of Contents XI
5. SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTORY
6. Introduction 3
7. SECTION TWO: LINGUISTIC MODELS
8. Linguistic Relativity: Myths and Methods 11
9. Wordless Thoughts 29
10. Some Notes on Central Eskimo Color Terminology 45
11. The Terminology of Time in Romanian 61
12. "Meaning" for the Linguist and "Meaning" for the Anthropologist 69
13. Linguistic Models in Anthropology 87
14. On Speech and Thought 99
15. SECTION THREE: ETHNOSCIENCE
16. The Synthetic Informant Model: On the Simulation of Large Lexical/Semantic Fields 131
17. Tahitian Ethnozoological Classification and Fuzzy Logic 171
18. On an African Classificatory System 185
19. Ethnoscience as a Research Paradigm 191
20. Australian Kin Classification 201
21. Kinship Terminologies: The Okinawan Case 211
22. SECTION FOUR: ETHNOHERMENEUTICS
23. Kachin Social Categories and Methodological Sins 229
24. "Must" and "Ought": Problems of Translation in Sanskritic Hindu Law 251
25. Ethnolinguistic Introduction to Japanese Literature 261
26. Ethnohermeneutics: On the Interpretation of Intended Meaning Among the Kpelle of Liberia 271
27. Bodily Symbolism in Hindu Ashrams and the Replication of Social Experience 283
28. Prestations and Prayers: Two Homologous Systems in Northern India 295
29. SECTION FIVE: OPPOSITIONS
30. Correlation of Contradictions: A Tibetan Semantic Device 325
31. Sex, Nature, and Culture in Ponapean Myth 337
32. Not in Ourselves, But in Our Stars 343
33. Conceptual Patterns in Yoruba Culture 359
34. On the Overlapping of Categories in the Social Sciences 391
35. SECTION SIX: FUNCTIONS, STRUCTURES, AND VALUES
36. The Semiotic Character of the Aesthetic Function as Defined by the Prague Linguistic Circle 407
37. Interrelationships of Individual, Cultural, and Pan-Human Values 441
38. The Nature of Value and the Experience Entities 469
39. SECTION SEVEN: DISCUSSION
40. Summary of Discussion 485
41. Biographical Notes 501
42. Index of Names 511
43. Index of Subjects 517