Cover -- Detailed Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- List of Photographs -- List of First-hand Accounts -- List of Topics for Reflection -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A New Encounter -- Varieties of Anthropology -- A Brief History of Social (and Cultural) Anthropology -- The Content of This Book -- References and Further Research -- 1 Seeing the World -- Souvenirs and Handkerchiefs -- Learning to Classify -- Classification of Life and Death -- Cultural Relativism and the Anthropologist's Bias -- Changes in Systems of Classification: The Issue of Gender -- Conclusion -- References and Further Research -- 2 Disgusting, Forbidden and Unthinkable -- Challenging Some Ingrained Ideas -- Taboo -- Pollution -- Purity and Classification -- Animal Categories and Verbal Abuse -- Conclusion -- References and Further Research -- 3 Gifts, Exchange and Reciprocity -- The Anthropologist's Arrival -- Gifts -- The Indian Gift -- Exchange -- Reciprocity -- Objects Inalienable, Entangled and Wrapped -- Conclusion -- References and Further Research -- 4 The Ritual Round -- Shoes and the Empty Ritual -- Definitions of Ritual -- Rites of Passage -- Ritual, Theatre and Play -- Conclusion -- References and Further Research -- 5 Society: A Set of Symbols -- What is a Symbol? -- Bodily Symbols -- Symbolising Relationships -- Group Symbols and Their Interpretation -- Anthropological Interpretation of Symbolism -- Conclusion -- References and Further Research -- 6 Beauty and Bounty: Treasure and Trophies -- Seeing and Value -- Living Art -- Art for Gaining Access to 'Seeing the World' -- Art, Status and Identity -- Art and Meaning -- Aesthetics -- Definitions of Art -- Conclusion -- References and Further Research -- 7 Cosmology I: Religion, Magic and Mythology -- Religion, Science and Cosmology -- Definitions and Distinctions -- Origins of Religion.
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