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While aboriginal populations have been widely reported to entertain magico‐religious beliefs concerning conception, the Paiela of the Papua New Guinea Highlands apparently do not. Semen, it is thought, must wrap around menstrual blood many times to keep it from ‘coming outside’ if the woman is to conceive. Bound blood forms the foetus. This seemingly naturalistic view is herein examined for its symbolic content. Uaiela ‘conception’ theory, it is argued, reflects not natural but social structural processes. It constitutes a complex statement, in a metaphoric mode, about the logically prior social arrangements in which conception is embedded and through which sexual reproduction becomes organized. Paiela ‘conception’ theory is revealed to be much broader in its range of competence than Western conception theory; and its relationship to Lévi‐Strauss'Elementary Structures of Kinshipis explo

ISSN:0025-2328    

DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1983.tb01254.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

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ISSN:0025-2328    

DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1983.tb01255.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

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In Theravada Buddhism temporal power is viewed as indispensible to the creation of political and economic conditions for spiritiual advancement. But it is a necessary evil. The Buddhist response to the misuse of power is to subordinate it to Buddhist ethics and to deny politics autonomy from religion. Yut, in Buddhist Thailand, there is another tradition which justifies pragmatism and even the use of force. This paper concerns a local leader in Northern Thailand who has attempted to achieve some sort of balance between these to contradictory traditions – a goal that has proved elusiv

ISSN:0025-2328    

DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1983.tb01256.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

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In this paper I examine the relevance of Lévy Bruhl's work for contemporary anthropological theory. Starting with a brief summary of his writings, I go on to explore his concept of primitive thought, showing how his ideas were influenced by Durkheim and depended mainly on the notion of collective representations. However, Lévy‐Bruhl's use of this concept, while Durkheimian in its sources, differed from Durkheim's original usage. It is this difference which I explore following suggestions by Waismann and other logicians interested in non‐standard logics.I assess the response to Lévy‐Bruhl's ideas both by his contemporaries and by more recent anthropologists, pointing out that much of their criticism is based on a misunderstanding of his position, combined with a lack of awareness on the part of most anthropologists of non‐standard, alternative logics.Finally I argue the importance of Lévy‐Bruhl's questions (but not his answers) for anthropologists interested in exploring modes of thought found in social structures which legitimate marked ambiguities in discourse and practice, and whose formal logical models do not conform to the aristote

ISSN:0025-2328    

DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1983.tb01257.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

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ISSN:0025-2328    

DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1983.tb01258.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

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ISSN:0025-2328    

DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1983.tb01259.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

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