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Choice and Morality in Anthropological Perspective
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Derek Freeman. Photograph taken by Monica Freeman in the mountain ranges south of Canberra.
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Choice and Morality in Anthropological Perspective
Essays in Honor of Derek Freeman
Edited by G. N. Appell and T. N. Madan
State University of New York Press
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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1988 State University of New York
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y., 12246
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Choice and morality in anthropological perspective.
Includes index. 1. Anthropological ethics. 2. EthicsCross-cultural studies. 3. Choice (Psychology)Cross-cultural studies. 4. Symbolic interactionism. 5. Freeman, Derek. I. Freeman, Derek. II. Appell, G. N. III. Madan, T. N. GN33.6.C481988174.930187-6534 ISBN 0-88706-606-2
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CONTENTS
Preface
vii
Acknowledgments
xi
Contributors
xiii
I. Introduction
1
Derek Freeman: Notes Toward an Intellectual Biography
G. N. Appell and T. N. Madan
3
Selected Bibliography of Derek Freeman
27
Introduction to the Essays
G. N. Appell
31
II. Theoretical Constructs, Meaning, and the Analysis of Choice Behavior
41
1. Emergent Structuralism: The Design of an Inquiry System to Delineate the Production and Reduction of Social Forms
G. N. Appell
43
2. From Choice to Meaning
George Devereux
61
3. Corpus Morale Collectivum: Social Anthropology Without Tears?
Peter Lawrence
69
4. The Morality of Exchange
D. K. Feil
99
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III. Filial Ambivalence and the Moral Order in Choice Behavior
111
5. Like Father, Like Son: Filial Ambivalence and the Death of Fathers in Kalauna
Michael W. Young
113
6. The Son as Savior: A Hindu View of Choice and Morality
T. N. Madan
137
IV. The Dialectic Between Destiny and Decision: Nomethetic and Ideographic Conceptions of Anthropology
157
7. The Ethnographer's Choices
Gilbert H. Herdt
159
8. In the Thrown World: Destiny and Decision in the Thought of Traditional Africa
Michael Jackson
193
V. Biological Givens and Symbol Choice
211
9. The Fetal and Natal Origins of Circumcision and Other Rebirth Symbols
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