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The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology

by Gananath Obeyesekere
University of Chicago Press, 1990
Cloth: 978-0-226-61598-1 | Paper: 978-0-226-61599-8
Library of Congress Classification BF175.4.C84O24 1990
Dewey Decimal Classification 306

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"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
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