The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology"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 |
Contents
Representation and Symbol Formation in a Psychoanalytic Anthropology | 1 |
Oedipus The Paradigm and its Hindu Rebirth | 69 |
The Parricide in Buddhist History | 141 |
Freud and Anthropology The Place Where Three Roads Meet | 215 |
Epilogue | 285 |
Notes | 291 |
Bibliography | 323 |
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