Fernandez, James W. ; editor: - Beyond Metaphor: The Theory of Tropes in Anthropology

Stanford [CA], Stanford University Press, (1991). orig.wrappers. 24x15cm, x,298 pp. PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Polytropy / Paul Friedrich -- The cultural basis of metaphor / Naomi Quinn -- Metaphor and experience : looking over the notion of image schema / Hoyt Alverson -- "We are parrots," "Twins are birds" : play of tropes as operational structure / Terence Turner -- Embedding and transforming polytrope : the monkey as self in Japanese culture / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney -- Tropical dominions : the figurative struggle over domains of belonging and apartness in Africa / Deborah Durham, James W. Fernandez -- Reasonable and unreasonable worlds : some expectations of coherence in culture implied by the prohibition of mixed metaphor / Dale Pesmen -- The Japanese tea ceremony : coherence theory and metaphor in social adaptation / Benjamin N. Colby.

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