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"The Work of Culture is the product of two decades of field research by Sri Lanka's most distinguished anthropological interpreter, and its combination of textual analysis, ethnographic sensitivity, and methodological catholicity makes it something of a blockbuster."—Arjun Appadurai, Journal of Asian Studies

The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 27/11/1990
    ISBN13: 9780226615981, 978-0226615981
    ISBN10: 0226615987

    Number of Pages: 380

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    "The Work of Culture is the product of two decades of field research by Sri Lanka's most distinguished anthropological interpreter, and its combination of textual analysis, ethnographic sensitivity, and methodological catholicity makes it something of a blockbuster."—Arjun Appadurai, Journal of Asian Studies

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