The Work of Culture

Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology

• Author(s): Gananath Obeyesekere,
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Pages: 354
• ISBN_10: 0226615995
  ISBN_13: 9780226615998
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Psychology / General , Psychology / Movements / Psychoanalysis , Social Science / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Archaeology ,

Description:... "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