The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology

by Gananath Obeyesekere

Book Overview

"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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226615995
• ISBN13: 9780226615998
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"