The Ceremonial Animal
Subtitle: A New Portrait of Anthropology
Contributors: Michael Lambek (Foreword)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 12, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780199263332
First sentence: The questions we ask about the past and the present, not to mention the future, are mostly attempts to divine some kind of fitting shape in the material world, in events, and in people's actions-partly because we have to respond to all these, especially the latter.