hnuki-Tierney
Dale Pest
Naomi Quinn
Terence Turner
Beyond Metaphor
The Theory of Tropes
in Anthropology
Edi
by
James W. Fernandez
Stanford U
Stanford,Preface
Western thought but in other traditions as well. Anthropologists,
cannot pretend to an original subject matter here, But we can pre
tend to a particular perspective upon it, one derived from our field
experience, cross-cultural for the most part, and our constant re
flection on the ethnography of human thought in relation to action
and as a shaping force—whether of facilitation or inhibition—in
that action. The tropes, we know from our field experience, play
an important role in human action and thus enter into any prag
‘matic understanding of things human, We hope to have commun
cated something of that notion here.
As editor of this volume, a task falling to me as convenor of the
symposium, I wish first to thank the contributors for their prompt
revision of these papers and for their dispatch in respect to the
usual editorial requirements. Michael Silverstein and David Sapir
made apposite and stimulating commentaries on the papers at the
tend of the symposium itself, We are all grateful for their participa-
tion and insights. I would like to thank Stanford Press, and espe-
cially our Stanford editors, William Carver and Ellen F. Smith, for
their contribution to this volume, Lucille Allsen of the Institute
for Advanced Study at Princeton provided efficient and
typing and editing of many of the revised papers, mater
tributing to the consolidation of the final manuscript. Dale Pesmen
has aided greatly in bibliographic matters, and Deborah Durham
prepared the index
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Contents
Contribu
Introduction: Confluents of Inguiry
James W. Fernandez
part I. Trope as Cognition and Poetic Discovery
p
ytropy
Paul Friedrich
The Cultural Basis of Metaphor
‘Naomi Quinn
Metaphor and Experi
the Notion of Image
Hoyt Alverson
art I. The Play of Tropes
Twins Are Birds”: Play of Tropes as
(Operational Structure
‘Terence Turner
Embedding and Transforming Polytrope
"The Monkey as Self in Japanese Culture
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Tropical Dominions: The Figurative Struggle
‘over Domains of Belonging and Apartness in Africa
Deborah Durham and James W. Fernandez
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Part II]. Metaphor and the Coherence of Culture
Reasonable and Unreasonable Worlds: Some
Expectations of Coherence in Culture Implied by the
Prohibition of Mixed Metaphor
Dale Pesmen
‘The Japanese Tea Ceremony: Coherence Theory
and Metaphor in Social Adaptation
Benjamin N. Colby
Bibliography, 263 Index, 287
Contents
Contributors
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Hoyt Alverson is Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth Col-
lege, He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and has worked
‘on the economics of migration and indust jon and on cog:
sitive and linguistic change in Southern Africa. He is currently
‘working on problems in the inguistics and on economic
development.
Benjamin N. Golby is Professor of Anthropology at the U
of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in Social
Harvard University, He has worked in Mexico, the United States,
‘and Japan and is currently studying linkages among symbolic be:
havior stress, and immunology in elderly Japanese and Anglo
‘women.
‘Deborah Durham received her education at Smith College, Boston
University, and the University of
pleting her Ph.D. at Chicago on
7 gousness of Community Among the Herero of Botswana,” based
on fieldwork in Africa.
James W. Femandez is Professor of Anthropology at the Unives-
sity of Chicago and was educated at Amherst College and North~
western University. He has worked among Fang, Zulu, Ewe, and
Fon in Africa and among cattle keepers and miners in Northern
Spain, He is currently preparing an ethnography on the Spanish
work.
Paul Friedrich is Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and So-
‘ial Thought at the University of Chicago and was educated at
Williams College, Harvard University, and Yale University. He has
‘worked among the Tarascans in Mexico, the Nayars in India, and
Russian dissidents. He is currently working on a book on Russian