Author: Maybury-Lewis, David & Almagor, Uri, editors:
Title: The Attraction of Opposites. Thought and Society in the Dualistic Mode
Description: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, (1992). 4th Printing, orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xii,365 pp. Textual charts. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contains 2 Introductions, an Epilogue + 14 papers. Includes: J.J. Fox " Category & Complement: Binary Ideologies & the Organization of Dualism in Eastern Indonesia"; J. Hinnant "Ritual & Inequality in Guji Dual Organization"; K. Maddock "The Complexity of Dual Organization in Aboriginal Australia"; D. Maybury-Lewis "Social Theory & Social Practice: Binary Systems in Central Brazil"; V. Vakleri "Reciprocal Centers: The Siwa-Lima System in the Central Moluccas"; U. Almagor "The Dialectic of Generation Moieties in an East African Society"; A.A. Yengoyan "Language & Conceptual Dualism: Sacred & Secular Concepts in Australian Aboriginal Cosmology & Myth"; A. Rosman & P.G. Rubel "Dual Organization & its Developmental Potential in Two Contrasting Environments"; J. Lamphear " Historical Dimensions of Dual Organization: The Generation-Class System of the Jie and the Turkana"; R. Tom Zuidema "The Moieties of Cuzco"; D. Tuzin "The Organization of Action, Identity, and Experience in Arapesh Dualism"; P. Spencer "The Maasai Double-Helix & the Theory of Dilemmas"; E.G. Traube "Obligations to the Source: Complementarity & Hierarchy in an Eastern Indonesian Society", etc.

Keywords: Cultural Anthropology, Dualism Sociology, Cross-Cultural, Comparative, Ethnophilosophy, Social Structure, Sociological Theory, Binary Systems, Dual Organization