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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ; 120Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©1995Edition: Reprint 2012Description: 1 online resource (364 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110138894
  • 9783110903010
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301 23
LOC classification:
  • GN357.B46
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
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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

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