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• ISBN: 0231040326
• ISBN: 9780231040327
• ISBN: 0231040334
• ISBN: 9780231040334
• Physical Description: vi, 523 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
• Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 1977.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-523).

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INTRODUCTION -- As people express their lives, so they are -- KINSHIP AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION -- Kinship and culture : affinity and the role of the father in the Trobriands / Karen I. Blu -- Kinship, nationality, and religion in American culture : toward a definition of kinship / David M Schneider -- Caste, recism, and "stratification" reflections of a social anthropologist / Louis Dumont -- ART -- Cbezanne's doubt / Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Making music together : a study in social relationship / Alfred Schutz -- Lbevi-Straus, literarily / James A. Boon -- THE ORGANIZATION OF PERCEPTION -- Cultural factors for spatial organizaiton / A. Irving Hallowell -- Lineal and nonlineal codifications of reality / Dorothy Lee -- Colors and cultures / Marshall Sahlins -- RITUAL AND MYTH -- Symbols in African ritual / Victor W. Turner -- Ritual communication : some considerations regarding meaning in Navajo ceremonials / David W. Murray -- The "wife" who "goes out" like a man: reinterpretation of a Clackamas Chinook myth / Dell H. Hymes -- IDEOLOGY AND MYTH -- The Fetishism of Commodities and the secret thereof / Karl Marx -- Ideology and the sociology of knowledge / Henri Lefebvre -- Identity choice and caste ideology in contemporary South India / Steve Barnett -- Sexuality as a social form : performance and anxiety in America / David S . Kemnitzer -- Person, hierarchy, and autonomy in traditional Yapese theory / John T. Kirkpatrick -- The Whiteness of the whale / Herman Melville -- Role Models / Esther Newton -- HISTORY AND MYTH (TIME) AS CULTURAL CATEGORIES -- The Invisible event / Janet L. Dolgin and Joann Magdoff -- Industrialization and capitalism in the work of Max Weber / Herbert Marcuse -- LANGUAGE AND CODES -- Shape in grammar / Paul Friedrich -- The Semantics of money-uses / Karl Polanyi -- Navajo categories of objects at rest / Gary J. Witherspoon -- On aphasia / Roman Jakobson -- THE PERSON -- Making sense : a study of a Banaban meeting / Martin G. Silverman -- "From the native's point of view" : on the nature of anthropological understanding / Clifford Geertz -- Culture as creativity / Roy Wagner.

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Symbolic anthropology.