Taboo, Truth and Religion
Berghahn Books, Incorporated (Verlag)
978-1-57181-712-9 (ISBN)
This new edition makes a classic text available once again to students and general readers. A major new introduction based on archival research offers, for the first time, a biography and critical study of Franz Steiner; it not only places him in the context of British and European thought but also shows his importance for contemporary debates, among them deconstruction and Orientalism.
Jeremy Adler is Professor of German at King's College London and specializes ininterdisciplinary subjects such as literature and science, poetry and painting, literature and anthropology. He is currently preparing a collected edition of Franz Steiner's poetry for theGerman Academy of Language and Literature, Darmstadt.
List of Illustrations
Contents of Volume II
Acknowledgements
A Note on Quotations
PART I: INTRODUCTIONS
Franz Steiner. A Memoir
Mary Douglas
An Oriental in the West: The Life of Franz Baermann Steiner
Jeremy Adler and Richard Fardon
PART II: TABOO
Chapter 1. The Discovery of Taboo
Chapter 2. Taboo in Polynesia (I)
Chapter 3. Taboo in Polynesia (II)
Chapter 4. A Victorian Problem: Robertson Smith
Chapter 5. Taboo and Contagion
Chapter 6. Taboo and the 'Holy'
Chapter 7. The Hebrew Bible: Snaith and Frazer
Chapter 8. Frazer and His Critic, Marett
Chapter 9. Taboo as Negative Mana
Chapter 10. Van Gennep and Radcliffe-Brown
Chapter 11. Wundt and Freud
Chapter 12. The Problem of Taboo
Bibliography. Reviews of Taboo
PART III: RELIGIOUS TRUTH
How to Define Superstition?
Enslavement and the Early Hebrew Lineage System: An Explanation of Genesis 47: 29-31, 48: 1-16
Chagga Law and Chagga Truth
Bibliography and References to Volumes I and II
Name Index to Volume I
Subject Index to Volume II
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.11.1999 |
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Reihe/Serie | Methodology & History in Anthropology |
Verlagsort | Herndon |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 354 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-57181-712-3 / 1571817123 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-57181-712-9 / 9781571817129 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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