The Yearbook of Symbolic Anthropology: 1 9780773593794
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Table of contents :
Cover
Title
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Contents
Introduction to Yearbook of Symbolic Anthropology
Introduction aux Annales d'anthropologie symbolique;
Resumes
Part I: Symbolic Anthropology in Canada and Quebec
Making Love is like Eating Honey or Sweet Fruit, it Causes Cavities: an essay on Cuiva symbolism
The Invading Guest: some aspects of oral transmission
Observers as Participants: a note in anthropology and social history
The Averted Gift: the Lau myth of the seeker of exchange
Burning our Trees: metaphors in Kewa songs
Dan Kochhongva's Message: myth, ideology and political action among the contemporary Hopi
Divinations and Decisions: multiple explanations for Algonkian scapulimancy
Part II: After Structuralism
Some Outstanding Problems in the Analysis of Events
The Post-Structuralist Position of Social Anthropology
Definition and its Problems in Social Anthropology
The Achievement of Sex: paradoxes in Hagen gender-thinking
Ideology and Theory: the problem of reification
Deep Structures of the Dance
