Culture, Thought, and Social Action: An Anthropological Perspective

achan action acts analogy animals anthropologists anuloma associated Ayutthaya Azande Balinese Brahman Buddha Buddhist buffalo canoe castes ceremony classification color compound concepts context cosmological cosmological scheme cult cultural curing session demons domain eating edible Edmund Leach Emerald Buddha Evans-Pritchard example fact female flying witches galactic polity Geertz hierarchy human illocutionary act implications inedible kind king kingdom kinship Kshatriya Kudayuri kula language linguistic logic maeng Majapahit male Malinowski Manu marriage meaning meditation metaphorical metonymic Mongkut monks myth notion objects patients pattern performative person political pollution practice pratiloma relation rites ritual royal rulers rules sacred semantic sense sequence sexual Shudra Sinhalese social society Southeast Asia spells Sri Lanka status structure symbolic taboos Thai Thailand theory tion traditional Trobriand twice-born unions Vaisya varna verbal village Western women words Zande