The Limits of Meaning
Subtitle: Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity
Contributors: Matthew Engelke (Editor); Matt Tomlinson (Editor)
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: August 4, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781845451707
Subjects: Christian rites & ceremonies; Social & cultural anthropology; Meaning (Philosophy); Christianity - History - General; Social Science; Sociology; Religious aspects; Sociology of Religion; Christianity; Anthropology - General; Christianity and culture; Ethnology
First sentence: As Stanley Tambiah once said, "the various ways 'meaning' is conceived in anthropology are a deadly source of confusion" (1985: 138).