Classic Concepts in Anthropology
Valerio Valeri author Giovanni Da Col author Rupert Stasch author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:HAU
Published:16th Oct '18
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The late anthropologist Valerio Valeri (1944-98) was best known for his substantial writings on societies of Polynesia and eastern Indonesia. This volume, however, presents a lesser known side of Valeri's genius through a dazzlingly erudite set of comparative essays on core topics in the history of anthropological theory. Offering masterly discussions of anthropological thought about ritual, fetishism, cosmogonic myth, belief, caste, kingship, mourning, play, feasting, ceremony, and cultural relativism, Classic Concepts in Anthropology, presented here with a critical foreword by Rupert Stasch and Giovanni da Col, will be an eye-opening, essential resource for students and researchers not only in anthropology but throughout the humanities.
"A great and unique master.... Valeri had an ability for amazement and wonder that came from a practice of ethnography which, rather than being a nominalist search for historical details, looked to life itself as a source of percepts as well as a producer of concepts." (Marcos P. D. Lanna, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos) "Any superlative diminishes Valeri and his scholarship, which is characterized by rich, subtle, and complex ethnographic and historical information, underscored by theoretical rigor based on extensive fieldwork." (Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
ISBN: 9780990505082
Dimensions: 229mm x 158mm x 21mm
Weight: 420g
280 pages