| Description |
302 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Symbol, myth, and ritual series |
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Symbol, myth, and ritual series.
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| Contents |
pt. 1. Inversion in image World upside down: the iconography of a European broadsheet type / David Kunzle -- "Liberty's a whore": inversions, marginalia, and picaresque narrative / Barbara A. Babcock -- Inversion and the erotic: the case of William Blake / Diane Christian -- De-construction in Waiting for Godot / Dina Sherzer -- Women on top: symbolic sexual inversion and political disorder in early modern Europe / Natalie Zemon Davis -- pt. 2. Inversion in action Ranges of festival behavior / Roger D. Abrahams and Richard Bauman -- Symbolic reversal and social history: transvestites and clowns of Java / James L. Peacock -- Return to Wirikuta: ritual reversal and symbolic continuity on the peyote hunt of the Huichol Indians / Barbara G. Myerhoff -- The rhetoric of control: Ilongots viewed as natural bandits and wild Indians / Renato I. Rosaldo, Jr. -- Deviance as success: the double inversion of stigmatized roles / Bruce Jackson |
| Notes |
Symposium held at the 1972 meetings of the American Anthropological Association |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Congresses.
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Ethnology.
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Symbolic inversion -- Congresses.
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Symbolic inversion.
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Symbolism in literature -- Congresses.
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Symbolism in literature.
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Symbolism -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Babcock, Barbara A., 1943-
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American Anthropological Association.
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Forms of Symbolic Inversion Symposium (1972 : Toronto, Ont.)
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| LC no. |
77003113 |
| ISBN |
0801411122 |
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