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Beyond Textuality : Asceticism and Violence in Anthropological Interpretation / Ellen E. Corin, Gilles Bibeau.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Approaches to semiotics ; 120.
- Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ; 120
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Culture--Semiotic models.
- Culture.
- Anthropology in literature.
- Anthropology--Philosophy.
- Anthropology.
- Participant observation--Philosophy.
- Participant observation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (378 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- Reprint 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- From submission to the text to interpretive violence / Bibeau, Gilles / Corin, Ellen E.
- Part I. Ascetic readings of the text: Proximity and fidelity
- From cosmology to ontology through resonance: A Chinese interpretation of reality / Blanc, Charles Le
- The Demon of Ashes in Sanskrit text and Himalayan ritual / Leavitt, John
- The Great Sign in the Book of Revelation - Le chant du signe / Chevalier, Jacques M.
- British cannibals: Contemplation of an event in the death and resurrection of James Cook, explorer / Obeyesekere, Gananath
- Part II. Text and sub-text: The grounding of interpretive violence
- Meaning games at the margins: The cultural centrality of subordinated structures / Corin, Ellen E.
- Transgression and transition: Confession as a sub-text in Maasai ritual / Galaty, John G.
- Murder on Mount Austen: Kwaio framing of an act of violence / Keesing, Roger M.
- Part III. Divination as interpretation from within
- How to say things with assertive acts? About some pragmatic properties of Senoufo divination / Zempléni, Andras
- The ghost in the machine: Etiology and divination in Japan / Picone, Mary
- The truths of interpretations: Envy, possession and recovery in Ladakh / Kaplanian, Patrick
- Part IV. The cooperative work in interpretation
- The subject of knowledge / Rousseau, Jérôme
- Egocentric particulars: Pronominal perspectives in ethnographic inquiry / Fernandez, James W.
- Conclusion
- Beyond postmodernism: Resonant anthropology / Maranda, Pierre
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9783110903010
- 3110903016
- OCLC:
- 979587712
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