| List of Illustrations |
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| Preface: AnThoreaupology: An Invitation |
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| Rehearsals |
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3 |
| An Endlessly Extra-Vagant Scholar: Kenneth Burke |
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3 |
| A Similar Genre: Opera |
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9 |
| Plus Melville, Cavell, Commodity-Life; Showbiz |
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14 |
| Pt. 1 |
Rituals, Rereading, Rhetorical Turns |
21 |
| Ch. 1 |
Re Menses: Rereading Ruth Benedict, Ultraobjectively |
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| Ch. 2 |
Of Foreskins: (Un)Circumcision, Religious Histories, Difficult Description (Montaigne/Remondino) |
43 |
| Ch. 3 |
About a Footnote: Between-the-Wars Bali: Its Relics Regained |
73 |
| Interlude: Essay-etudes and Tristimania |
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97 |
| Pt. 2 |
Multimediations: Coincidence, Memory, Magics |
101 |
| Ch. 4 |
Cosmopolitan Moments: As-if Confessions of an Ethnographer-Tourist (Echoey "Cosmomes") |
103 |
| Ch. 5 |
Why Museums Make Me Sad (Eccentric Musings) |
124 |
| Ch. 6 |
Litterytoor 'n' Anthropolygee: An Experimental Wedding of Incongruous Styles from Mark Twain and Marcel Mauss |
143 |
| Pt. 3 |
Cross-over Studies, Seriocomic Critique |
167 |
| A Little Polemic, Quizzically |
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169 |
| Ch. 7 |
Against Coping Across Cultures: Self-help Semiotics Rebuffed |
176 |
| Ch. 8 |
Errant Anthropology, with Apologies to Chaucer |
191 |
| Ch. 9 |
Margins and Hierarchies and Rhetorics That Subjugate |
198 |
| Ch. 10 |
Evermore Derrida, Always the Same (What Gives?) |
211 |
| Ch. 11 |
Taking Torgovnick as She Takes Others |
221 |
| Ch. 12 |
Rerun (1980s): Mary Douglas's Grid/Group Grilled |
230 |
| Ch. 13 |
Update (1990s): Coca-Cola Consumes Baudrillard, and a Balinese (Putu) Consumes Coca-Cola |
249 |
| Encores and Envoi: Burke, Cavell, etc., Unforgotten |
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263 |
| Acknowledgments and Credits |
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279 |
| Notes |
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283 |
| References |
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315 |
| Index |
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357 |