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The Work of Culture

Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology

By: Gananath Obeyesekere

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Paperback | 15 October 1990 | Edition Number 1

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"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

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Non-Fiction Psychology Psychological Theory, Systems, Schools of Thought & Viewpoints Psychoanalytical Theory & Freudian Psychology Society & Culture Cultural Studies Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Archaeology

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface
Representation and Symbol Formation in a Psychoanalytic Anthropology
Unfreezing the Text, Releasing the Narrative
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
Symbolic Remove and the Work of Culture Lecture
Oedipus: The Paradigm and its Hindu Rebirth
Relativizing the Oedipus Complex: The Trobriand Case
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