| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xii, 255 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
School of American Research advanced seminar series
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School of American Research advanced seminar series.
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| Note |
"A School of American Research book." |
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"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." |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 239-247. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Shifters, linguistic categories, and cultural description / Michael Silverstein -- "Meaning" of kinship in American culture: another view / Harold W. Scheffler -- 'Wise words' of the Western Apache: metaphor and semantic theory / Keith H. Basso -- Speech acts and social learning / Susan Ervin-Tripp -- A propositional analysis of U.S. American beliefs about illness / Roy G. DA̓ndrade -- Dialectics in Zapotec thinking / Fadwa El Guindi and Henry A. Selby -- Notes toward a theory of culture / David M. Schneider -- "From the native's point of view": on the nature of anthropological understanding / Clifford Geertz. |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Congresses.
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Ethnology -- Congresses. |
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Symbolism -- Congresses.
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Symbolism. |
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Semantics -- Congresses.
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Semantics. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Basso, Keith H., 1940-2013.
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Selby, Henry A.
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School of American Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Meaning in anthropology. 1st ed. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1976 (OCoLC)647370585 |
| ISBN |
0826303994 |
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9780826303998 |
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