The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology

Description: The Work of Culture by Gananath Obeyesekere ""The Work of Culture" is the product of two decades of field research by Sri Lankas 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" FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "The Work of Culture is the product of two decades of field research by Sri Lankas 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 Author Biography Gananath Obeyesekere is Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He is the author of "Imagining Karma: Ethical""Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth "(California, 2002), "The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the""Pacific "(1997), "The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in""Psychoanalysis and Anthropology "(1990), "The Cult of the Goddess Pattini" (1984), and "Medusas Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious""Experience "(1984). Table of Contents Foreword 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 Vasubandhus 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 Details ISBN0226615995 Author Gananath Obeyesekere Pages 380 Language English Edition 2nd ISBN-10 0226615995 ISBN-13 9780226615998 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 306 Series Number 1982 Year 1990 Imprint University of Chicago Press Subtitle Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Illustrations xxvi, 354 p. Short Title WORK OF CULTURE 2/E Series Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures (Paperback) Residence US DOI 10.1604/9780226615998 UK Release Date 1990-10-15 AU Release Date 1990-10-15 NZ Release Date 1990-10-15 US Release Date 1990-10-15 Publisher The University of Chicago Press Publication Date 1990-10-15 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161786303;

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