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ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMANISM
VOLUME 11, NUMBER
3 SEPTEMBER 1986
CONTENTS
PROSE
The Meaning of "Religion as a Cultural
System"
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Stan Wilk 50
The Human Context of the Interpretation
of Cultures
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Cecil R. Welte 56
The Temporal Hermeneutic after Geertz
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Stan Mumford 62
POEMS
Invitation to Excavation
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George Edward McDonough 69
July 4, 1986
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Molly Molloy 69
Watoga State Park, West Virginia 1986
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Doug Chambers 70
BOOK REVIEWS
French Perspectives on Humanism and
Anthropology
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Waltraud Grohs-Paul 70
Dramas and Texts: The Anthropology of
Victor Turner
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Riv-Ellen Prell 71
Geertz, Gods, and Good Beginnings
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Stephen D. Glazier 72
Freud Resuscitated?
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David H. Spain 74
BOOKS
RECEIVED FOR
REVIEW 1986 75
Original art by Mary Lee Eggart
Cover art
An anthropologist and a nurse on the faculty of the University Kansas School of
Nursing, Ann Kuckelman Cobb lives in
Lawrence, Kansas, and has spent the past four years building a log cabin
and learning to paint. Possessed of a life-long interest in art, only recently has she
acquired the "language" for it. Her acquisition came through a class in contour
drawing, which is based on the premise
that drawing is a skill and can be taught
and learned. Watercolor is her preferred
medium, and she won a second place
award in the 1985 Lawrence Art Guild Juried Painting and Print Show for
her painting, "Josie's World."
She writes, "As anthropologists, words
have been our stock-in-trade. Through
ethnographic texts, we have been able to
capture, framed on a page, word-pictures of people. Such texts require a
linear, logical, word-for-word deciphering process.
Paintings, on the other hand, present the
story whole. All the elements of a given
segment of the artist's reality are mutually
and simultaneously present, to please, to
shock, to inform. This holistic simultaneity
of color, line, and texture, and the immediacy, the shorthand presentation of a
concept I find exciting as a person and as
an anthropologist. Such representations
may provide insights equivalent to, or surpassing, those of the
standard, ethnographic narrative."
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