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Culture, Thought, and Social Action Culture, Thought, and Social Action An Anthropological Perspective Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England 1985 Copyright © 1985 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 21 This book is printed on acid-free paper, and its binding materials have been chosen for strength and durability. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1929- Culture, thought, and social action. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Rites and ceremonies. 2. Folk classification. 3. Ethnophilosophy. I. Title. GN473.T36 1985 306 84-27927 ISBN 0-674-17969-2 (alk. paper) For Mary Wynne, Jonathan, and Matthew Contents Introduction From the General to the Particular and the Construction of Totalities 1 1 Ritual as Thought and Action 1 The Magical Power of Words 17 2 Form and Meaning of Magical Acts 60 3 A Thai Cult of Healing through Meditation 87 4 A Performative Approach to Ritual 123 II Cosmologies and. Classifications as Thought and Action 5 Animals Are Good to Think and Good to Prohibit 169 6 From Varna to Caste through Mixed Unions 212 7 The Galactic Polity in Southeast Asia 252 8 On Flying Witches and Flying Canoes: The Coding of Male and Female Values 287 9 A Reformulation of Geertz's Conception of the Theater State 316 Conclusion An Anthropologist's Creed 339 References 361 Notes 376 Sources 405 Index 407 Culture, Thought, and Social Action
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