The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and AnthropologyUniversity of Chicago Press, 27 nov. 1990 - 354 pages "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 |
Table des matières
LECTURE | 1 |
Regression | 24 |
LECTURE | 69 |
Emergence of the Father Killer | 137 |
1 | 143 |
The Conscience | 167 |
Ethics Conscience | 188 |
1 | 217 |
Validation in Psychoethnographic Interpretation | 269 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology Gananath Obeyesekere Aucun aperçu disponible - 1990 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Abdin Ajātasattu ammā analysis anthropologist anxiety Asoka Bambura Buddha Buddhist castration Chicago conscience consciousness cult culture deal debate deep motivations deity demon Devadatta discourse divine dream Elāra erotic ethnographic example existence fantasy father Freud Freudian Gaṇeśa goddess hermeneutics Hindu human sciences Ibid idea ideal Indian interpretation intersubjectivity Kālī Kasyapa Kataragama kill king language Leach lecture Mahāvamsa Mahāyāna mango meaning Medusa's Hair metatheory monks mother mother's brother myth model nature Nuvarakalāviya Oedipus complex ontological Palanga parricide Pattini Paul Ricoeur personal symbols philosophical priest problem psychic psychoanalysis psychoanalytic anthropology psychological Pul Eliya Pulleyar reality recognized relation relationship religion religious repression Ricoeur ritual drama Sakra sense sexual Sigiriya Sigmund Freud significance Sinhabahu Sinhala Śiva Skanda social society Sri Lanka structure superego symbolic forms symbolic remove symptoms Tamil theme theory thought tion tradition transformation Trobriand unconscious University Press Vijaya Western Wittgenstein