Culture through time : anthropological approaches

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Culture through time : anthropological approaches

edited by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

Stanford University Press, c1990

  • : hard : alk. paper
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-323) and index

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Description

A Stanford University Press classic.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: the historicization of anthropology Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney 2. The political economy of Grandeur in Hawaii from 1810 to 1830 Marshall Sahlins 3. Patterns of history: cultural schemas in the foundings of sherpa religious institutions Sherry B. Ortner 4. Enclosures: boundary maintenance and its representations over time in Asturian mountain villages (Spain) James W. Fernandez 5. The monkey as self in Japanese culture Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney 6. Constitutive history: genealogy and narrative in the legitimation of Hawaiian kingship Valerio Valeri 7. Shaping time: the choice of the national emblem of Israel Don Handelman and Lea Shamgar-Handelman 8. Aryan invasions over four millennia Edmund Leach 9. Form and meaning in recent Indonesian history: some reflections in light of H. G. Gadamer's philosophy of history James L. Peacock 10. Historians, anthropologists, and symbols Peter Burke Index.

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