| Description |
302 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Symbol, myth and ritual series
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Symbol, myth, and ritual series.
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| Note |
Symposium held at the 1972 meetings of the American Anthropological Association. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Inversion in image: World upside down: the iconography of a European broadsheet type / David Kunzle -- "Liberty's a whore": inversions, marginalia, and picaresque narrative / Barbara A. Babcock -- Inversion and the erotic: the case of William Blake / Diane Christian -- De-construction in Waiting for Godot / Dina Sherzer -- Women on top: symbolic sexual inversion and political disorder in early modern Europe / Natalie Zemon Davis -- pt. 2. Inversion in action: Ranges of festival behavior / Roger D. Abrahams and Richard Bauman -- Symbolic reversal and social history: transvestites and clowns of Java / James L. Peacock -- Return to Wirikuta: ritual reversal and symbolic continuity on the peyote hunt of the Huichol Indians / Barbara G. Myerhoff -- Rhetoric of control: Ilongots viewed as natural bandits and wild Indians / Renato I. Rosaldo, Jr. -- Deviance as success: the double inversion of stigmatized roles / Bruce Jackson. |
| Subject |
Symbolic inversion -- Congresses.
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Symbolic inversion. |
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Symbolism in literature -- Congresses.
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Symbolism in literature. |
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Ethnology -- Congresses.
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Ethnology -- Congresses. |
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Inversion symbolique -- Congrès. |
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Symbolisme dans la littérature -- Congrès. |
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Ethnologie -- Congrès. |
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Symbolisme. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Babcock, Barbara A., 1943-
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American Anthropological Association.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Forms of Symbolic Inversion Symposium (1972 : Toronto) Reversible world. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1978 (OCoLC)561158320 |
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Online version: Forms of Symbolic Inversion Symposium (1972 : Toronto) Reversible world. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1978 (OCoLC)608814289 |
| ISBN |
0801411122 |
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9780801411120 |
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