ISBN:
0-8263-0399-4
,
978-0-8263-0399-8
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 255 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [9]
Series Statement:
A _School of American Research Book [9]
Keywords:
Ethnologie Symbolik
;
Semantik
;
Anthropologie
;
Anthropologie, soziale
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword by Douglas W. Schwartz, General Editor -- Preface by Keith H. Basso and Henry A. Selby -- Figures -- Tables -- 1. Introduction, Keith H. Basso and Henry A. Selby -- 2. Shifters, Linguistic Categories, and Cultural Description, Michael Silverstein -- 3. The "Meaning" of Kinship in American Culture: Another View, Harold W. Scheffler -- 4. `Wise Words` of the Western Apache: Metaphor and Semantic Theory, Keith H. Basso -- 5. Speech Acts and Social Learning, Susan Ervin-Tripp -- 6. A Propositional Analysis of the U.S. American Beliefs about Illness, Roy G. D`Andrade -- 7. Dialectics in Zapotec Thinking, Fadwa El Guindi and Henry A. Selby -- 8. Notes toward a Theory of Culture, David M. Schneider -- 9. "From the Native`s Point of View": On the Nature of Anthropological Understanding, Clifford Geertz --References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 239-247"This volume is the result of a conference held on the days of March 18-22, 1974 at the School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico." (Seite ix)Enthält 9 Beiträge