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  • THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF TIME
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    THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF TIME
    ALFRED GELL
    Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. The author examines the phenomenon of time and asks such fascinating questions as how time impinges on people, to what extent our awareness of time is culturally conditioned, how societies deal with temporal problems and whether time...

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  • METAMORPHOSIS OF THE CASSOWARIES
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    METAMORPHOSIS OF THE CASSOWARIES
    ALFRED GELL
    In this substantial book, Gell guides the reader systematically through an analysis of the social structure, language and ritual of the Umedia-Punda connubium of the West Sepik district. One of the central areas explored is the ida fertitility ritual and the decipherment and the unravelling of symbolic relationships between words of similar construction. One one side is the ana...

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  • THE ART OF ANTHROPOLOGY
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    THE ART OF ANTHROPOLOGY
    ALFRED GELL
    The Art of Anthropology collects together the most influential of Gell's writings, which span the past two decades, with a new introductory chapter written by Gell. The essays vividly demonstrate Gell's theoretical and empirical interests and his distinctive contribution to several key areas of current anthropological enquiry. A central theme of the essays is Gel's highly origi...

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