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In this book, James Boon ranges through history and around the globe in a series of provocative reflections on the limitations, attractions, and ambiguities of cultural interpretation. The book reflects the unusual keyword of its title, extra-vagance, a term Thoreau used to refer to thought that ski...

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Autor principal: Boon, James A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Temas:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
Apollonian and Dionysian values.
Buginese.
Calvin and Calvinism.
Christian rites and contexts.
Dolly as a leading motive.
Dutch scholarship.
France and the French.
Grandville.
Hollywood.
Indic rites and contexts.
Islamic rites and contexts.
Japanese friends and culture.
Jewish rites and contexts.
alchemy.
amusement industry.
aphorism.
births, actual and metaphorical.
bricolage.
carnivalization.
circumcisions.
comedy and theory.
cyberspace.
deconstruction.
desire and theory.
dialectics.
elective affinities.
ethnography as a genre.
extra-Vagance.
feminist topics.
genitality as a category.
hermeneutics.
hybrids and hybridities.
iconography and art history.
journalistic accounts.
lists and copiousness.
margins and marginality.
marriage institutions.
melancholia.
modernism and modernity.
motives and leading motives.
museums.
mystic positions.
neoplatonism.
novels as a genre.
palimpsests.
polemical critique.
postmodernist positions.
race and racisms.
renunciation.
sacrifice.
seriocomic interpretation.
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