Culture, Thought, and Social Action : : An Anthropological Perspective / / Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1985
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (411 p.) :; illsutrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Introduction From the General to the Particular and the Construction of Totalities --; I. Ritual as Thought and Action --; 1. The Magical Power of Words --; 2. Form and Meaning of Magical Acts --; 3. A Thai Cult of Healing through Meditation --; 4. A Performative Approach to Ritual --; II. Cosmologies and Classifications as Thought and Action --; 5. Animals Are Good to Think and Good to Prohibit --; 6. From Varna to Caste through Mixed Unions --; 7. The Galactic Polity in Southeast Asia --; 8. On Flying Witches and Flying Canoes: The Coding of Male and Female Values --; 9. A Reformulation of Geertz’s Conception of the Theater State --; Conclusion An Anthropologist's Creed --; References Notes Sources Index --; References --; Notes --; Sources --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674433748; 9783110353488; 9783110353556; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674433748
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah.