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

Keywords: Philosophy of Anthropology, Symbolism, Metaphor, Cognition, Ethnology, Tropes, Social Theory, Sociology, Ethnography