Beyond Textuality : : Asceticism and Violence in Anthropological Interpretation / / ed. by Ellen E. Corin, Gilles Bibeau.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bibeau, Gilles,; Blanc, Charles Le,; Chevalier, Jacques M.,; Corin, Ellen E.,; Fernandez, James W.,; Galaty, John G.,; Kaplanian, Patrick,; Keesing, Roger M.,; Leavitt, John,; Maranda, Pierre,; Obeyesekere, Gananath,; Picone, Mary,; Rousseau, Jérôme,; Zempléni, Andras,
• HerausgeberIn: Bibeau, Gilles,; Corin, Ellen E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Approaches to Semiotics [AS] , 120
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (364 p.)
• Other title: i-iv --; Preface --; Contents --; Introduction --; From submission to the text to interpretive violence --; Part I. Ascetic readings of the text: Proximity and fidelity --; From cosmology to ontology through resonance: A Chinese interpretation of reality --; The Demon of Ashes in Sanskrit text and Himalayan ritual --; The Great Sign in the Book of Revelation – Le chant du signe --; British cannibals: Contemplation of an event in the death and resurrection of James Cook, explorer --; Part II. Text and sub-text: The grounding of interpretive violence --; Meaning games at the margins: The cultural centrality of subordinated structures --; Transgression and transition: Confession as a sub-text in Maasai ritual --; Murder on Mount Austen: Kwaio framing of an act of violence --; Part III. Divination as interpretation from within --; How to say things with assertive acts? About some pragmatic properties of Senoufo divination --; The ghost in the machine: Etiology and divination in Japan --; The truths of interpretations: Envy, possession and recovery in Ladakh --; Part IV. The cooperative work in interpretation --; The subject of knowledge --; Egocentric particulars: Pronominal perspectives in ethnographic inquiry --; Conclusion --; Beyond postmodernism: Resonant anthropology --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110903010; 9783110637939
• ISSN: 0066-5576
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110903010
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Ellen E. Corin, Gilles Bibeau.