Sylvia Caiuby Novaes, Sylvia Caiuby Novaes

The Play of Mirrors

The Representation of Self Mirrored in the Other
Übersetzer: Burbridge, Izabel Murat

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Incorporating contributions from psychology, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and semiotics, The Play of Mirrors focuses on symbols, images, and meanings rather than solely on the problem of acculturation. It thus reflects the thinking of a new generation of Brazilian anthropologists who have shifted their focus from native communities as isolated entities to an examination of their embeddeness within broader national and international arenas.

Produktdetails

• University of Texas Press
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780292711969
• ISBN-10: 0292711964
• Artikelnr.: 26488944

Autorenporträt

Author Sylvia Caiuby Novaes is Professor of Anthropology at the Universidade de São Paulo and has conducted field research among Brazilian Indians for more than twenty years. Izabel Murat Burbridge is a freelance translator in São Paulo.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgments
* 1. Contemporary Anthropology and Studies of Identity and Social
Change
* 2. Identity in the Broad Sense: The Other as Model
* 3. Literature as Mirror: Different Views of Social Change in Bororo
Society
* 4. Self-Image as Formed in the Play of Mirrors: Structural Distance
and Reference Values
* 5. The Salesian Missions in Mato Grosso
* 6. The Salesians and the Progressive Church: The Reshaping of an
Image
* 7. Missionaries and Indians: Identification Created through Martyrdom
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index