Anthropological Theory: An Introductory HistoryA comprehensive and accessible survey of the history of theory in anthropology, this anthology of classic readings contains in-depth commentary in introductions and notes to help guide students through excerpts of seminal anthropological works. The commentary provides the background information needed to understand each article, its central concepts, and its relationship to the social and historical context in which it was written. |
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Page 506
... cockfight is a symbolic key to Balinese personality because it is the ritual through which the Balinese express their values . Geertz uses the phrase the " migration of the Balinese status hierarchy into the body of the cockfight " to ...
... cockfight is a symbolic key to Balinese personality because it is the ritual through which the Balinese express their values . Geertz uses the phrase the " migration of the Balinese status hierarchy into the body of the cockfight " to ...
Page 546
... cockfight to be an art form , which he understands in a very Western way : " As any art form - for that , finally , is what we are dealing with - the cockfight renders ordinary , everyday experience comprehensible by presenting it in ...
... cockfight to be an art form , which he understands in a very Western way : " As any art form - for that , finally , is what we are dealing with - the cockfight renders ordinary , everyday experience comprehensible by presenting it in ...
Page 548
... cockfight , he has constructed a cockfight and interpreted his construction . Crapanzano claims that Geertz's analysis is exemplary because of the methodological tool Geertz employed , using the cockfight as a window through which ...
... cockfight , he has constructed a cockfight and interpreted his construction . Crapanzano claims that Geertz's analysis is exemplary because of the methodological tool Geertz employed , using the cockfight as a window through which ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Sigmund Freud The Return of Totemism in Childhood 1913 | 67 |
The Foundations of Sociological Thought | 84 |
Copyright | |
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