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Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Ser.: Work of Culture : Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology by Gananath Obeyesekere (1990, Trade Paperback)
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Publisher: University of Chicago Press. Publication Date: 10/15/1990.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226615995
ISBN-139780226615998
eBay Product ID (ePID)74307
Product Key Features
Number of Pages380 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameWork of Culture : Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology
Publication Year1990
SubjectMovements / Psychoanalysis, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
TypeTextbook
AuthorGananath Obeyesekere
Subject AreaSocial Science, Psychology
SeriesLewis Henry Morgan Lecture Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1 in
Item Weight18.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN90-010904
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition20
Series Volume NumberVol. 1982
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306
Table Of ContentForeword Acknowledgments Preface Lecture One - Representation and Symbol Formation in a Psychoanalytic Anthropology 1. Unfreezing the Text, Releasing the Narrative 2. Dromena and Cathartic Rituals: Regression and Progression in Collective Representations Killing and the Resurrection "Distortion" in the Work of Culture The Limits of Cultural Elaboration 3. Symbolic Remove and the Work of Culture Lecture Two - Oedipus: The Paradigm and its Hindu Rebirth 1. Relativizing the Oedipus Complex: The Trobriand Case 2. Further Steps in Relativization: The Indian Oedipus Revisited Freud and the Indian Oedipus: An Imaginary Journey 3. Universalizing the Oedipus Complex: Argument with Wittgenstein 4. The Indian Oedipus in Sri Lanka: Pulleyar and the Lord Buddha Revisited The Potent Pulleyar of Pul Eliya: Ethnographic Doubt Myth Associations: Validation in Interpretation Back to Leach: Motivation and Structure 5. Change, History, and the Forgetting of Pulleyar Debate and the Historicity of Charter The Buddhist Form of Life and the Emergence of the Father Killer Lecture Three - The Parricide in Buddhist History 1. Myth Models of the Parricide: Oedipus in Sri Lanka Parricide and Fratricide: The Story of King Asoka Vasubandhu's Oedipus 2. Symbolic Parricide: The Conscience of Dutthagamani Abhaya 3. The True Parricide: Kasyapa of Sigiriya, the "Lion Mountain" What Happened Then? A Brief Afterword Conscience and Culture: The Parricidal King in Buddhist History The Demonic Oedipus: Ethics, Conscience, and Culture Cosmos and Psyche 4. Psychic Structures of the Long Run: The Marriage of the Hero Appendix: Rajasinha I Lecture Four - Freud and Anthropology: The Place Where Three Roads Meet 1. The First Intersubjectivity: The Anthropologist and the Native 2. The Second Intersubjectivity: Participation and Observation 3. The Third Intersubjectivity and the Idea of a Metatheory The Third Intersubjectivity Pursued: Metatheory and Thick Description Validation in Psychoethnographic Interpretation The Expansion of the Third Intersubjectivity: The Idea of a "Cultural Consciousness" 4. Language and Symbolic Form in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology Epilogue Notes Bibliography Author Index Subject Index
Synopsis" The Work of Culture is the product of two decades of field research by Sri Lanka's most distinguished anthropological interpreter, and its combination of textual analysis, ethnographic sensitivity, and methodological catholicity makes it something of a blockbuster."-Arjun Appadurai, Journal of Asian Studies, " The Work of Culture is the product of two decades of field research by Sri Lanka's most distinguished anthropological interpreter, and its combination of textual analysis, ethnographic sensitivity, and methodological catholicity makes it something of a blockbuster."--Arjun Appadurai, Journal of Asian Studies
LC Classification NumberBF175.4.C84O24 1990
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