Culture, Thought, and Social Action : : An Anthropological Perspective / / Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1985 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (411 p.) :; illsutrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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