Table of Contents

Introduction - beyond boundaries, Mediations in the global ecumene, Doves, hawks, and anthropology - the Israeli debate on Middle Eastern settlement proposals, Foreign myths and sagas in Japan - the academics and the cartoonist, The anthropologist as shaman - interpreting recent political events in Armenia, Household words - attention, agency, and the ethnography of fishing, Acting cool and being safe - the definition of skill in a Swedish railway yard, Interpreting and explaining cultural representations, Beyond the words - the power of resonance, The art of translation in a continuous world.

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Also available in paperback, 9781859730218 GBP17.99 (May, 1994)

About the Author

Gisli Palsson Professor of Social Anthropology,University of Iceland

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' ... the first of its kind to touch upon the idea of understanding social life through discourse.' Informations bibliographiques et lexicographiques