Taboo, Truth and Religion (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
304
Utgivningsdatum
1999-11-01
Upplaga
New ed
Förlag
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Medarbetare
Adler, Jeremy (ed.), Fardon, Richard (ed.)
Illustrationer
Bibliography, index
Dimensioner
217 x 138 x 17 mm
Vikt
313 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
Paperback
ISBN
9781571817129

Taboo, Truth and Religion

Selected Writings

av Jeremy Adler, Richard Fardon
Häftad,  Engelska, 1999-11-01
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Franz Steiner's study of Taboo is internationally recognized as a classic in its field. In a newly researched introductory chapter, based on a thorough study of Steiner's unpublished papers, this edition for the first time places the book in its context and offers a new reading of the text. More than just a critique of existing taboo theories, as it has often been seen, this study offers a profound analysis of danger behavior and pollution in "non-civilized" societies. This provided an important starting-point for Mary Douglas' Purity and Danger. A key aspect of Steiner's achievement lies in his attempt to reconcile detailed, faithful ethnographic analysis with anthropological comparison. His analysis of taboo thus provides a case study with wide-ranging ramifications. This new edition makes a classic text available once again to students and general readers. A major new introduction based on archival research offers, for the first time, a biography and critical study of Franz Steiner; it not only places him in the context of British and European thought but also shows his importance for contemporary debates, among them deconstruction and Orientalism.
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These works must be read and reread for their brilliance as individual pieces, but reading them as a collectivity makes the experience all the more richer and intellecutally challenging. American Anthropologist

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Jeremy Adler is Professor of German at King's College London and specializes ininterdisciplinary subjects such as literature and science, poetry and painting, literature and anthropology. He is currently preparing a collected edition of Franz Steiner's poetry for theGerman Academy of Language and Literature, Darmstadt.

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List of Illustrations Contents of Volume II Acknowledgements A Note on Quotations PART I: INTRODUCTIONS Franz Steiner. A Memoir Mary Douglas An Oriental in the West: The Life of Franz Baermann Steiner Jeremy Adler and Richard Fardon PART II: TABOO Chapter 1. The Discovery of Taboo Chapter 2. Taboo in Polynesia (I) Chapter 3. Taboo in Polynesia (II) Chapter 4. A Victorian Problem: Robertson Smith Chapter 5. Taboo and Contagion Chapter 6. Taboo and the 'Holy' Chapter 7. The Hebrew Bible: Snaith and Frazer Chapter 8. Frazer and His Critic, Marett Chapter 9. Taboo as Negative Mana Chapter 10. Van Gennep and Radcliffe-Brown Chapter 11. Wundt and Freud Chapter 12. The Problem of Taboo Bibliography. Reviews of Taboo PART III: RELIGIOUS TRUTH How to Define Superstition? Enslavement and the Early Hebrew Lineage System: An Explanation of Genesis 47: 29-31, 48: 1-16 Chagga Law and Chagga Truth Bibliography and References to Volumes I and II Name Index to Volume I Subject Index to Volume II

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