Beyond Textuality
Asceticism and Violence in Anthropological Interpretation
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XIV, 364 pages
978-3-11-090301-0 (ISBN)
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Gilles Bibeau | Ellen E. Corin
Beyond Textuality
Asceticism and Violence in Anthropological Interpretation
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Beyond Textuality
Asceticism and Violence in Anthropological Interpretation
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Content
- Intro
- 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
