Literature and AnthropologyPhilip Adams Dennis, Wendell M. Aycock Literature and Anthropology consists of a collection of papers written by anthropologists, writers, and literary scholars in reference to a multitude of topics such as ethnographic mystery novels, Caribbean literature, anthropological poetry and shamanism. These papers were selected by an interdisciplinary committee at Texas Tech on the basis of their individual merits. |
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... readers , whether they want to be or not , are informed about a Navajo belief regarding violation of a taboo . The problem is that the reader gets only a glimpse . He doesn't get as much meaning as I would like to provide . The solution ...
... readers , whether they want to be or not , are informed about a Navajo belief regarding violation of a taboo . The problem is that the reader gets only a glimpse . He doesn't get as much meaning as I would like to provide . The solution ...
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... reader inside the hogan on the last night . The plot requires me to have the policeman and the reader find a lantern that has come off a missing helicopter , and , in this final day of the ceremony , the members of the clan will bring ...
... reader inside the hogan on the last night . The plot requires me to have the policeman and the reader find a lantern that has come off a missing helicopter , and , in this final day of the ceremony , the members of the clan will bring ...
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... reader know what an interested Navajo would know about the sorcery society and the Hopi beliefs about human evolution : that man progressed beyond the state of being an animal and lost the right to move back and forth between the world ...
... reader know what an interested Navajo would know about the sorcery society and the Hopi beliefs about human evolution : that man progressed beyond the state of being an animal and lost the right to move back and forth between the world ...
Contents
MAKING MYSTERIES WITH NAVAJO MATERIALS | 5 |
FICTIONAL | 15 |
Point of View in Anthropological Discourse | 31 |
Copyright | |
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