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On the Edge of the Bush: Anthropology as Experience@@@The Anthropology of Experience
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This article is published in Journal of American Folklore.The article was published on 1987-07-01. It has received 168 citations till now.read more
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A Sociocultural Analysis of a Midwestern American Flea Market
TL;DR: In this paper, an ethnographic case study of a midwestern American flea market is presented, which illustrates the institutional complexity and sociocultural significance of the market and its structure and function.
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History, Structure, and Ritual
John D. Kelly,Martha Kaplan +1 more
TL;DR: The Gun and Rain this paper is a historical account of the means of destruction in a particular moment of Zimbabwe history, focusing on a specific historical situation, but not a cultural archetype.
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Ritual and relationships: Interpersonal influences on shared consumption
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the symbolic meaning associated with participation in shared consumption rituals in terms of developing and maintaining social relationships among buyers and explore the social context of this particular form of shared consumption.
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From Interpretation to Representation in Organizational Analysis: Postmodernism, Ethnography and Organizational Symbolism
TL;DR: The authors argued that the understanding of organization is inseparable from the organization of understanding, and they developed and sustained this argument through detailed consideration of the problematics of interpretation and of representation in organizational analysis.
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Collective Effervescence and Communitas: Processual Models of Ritual and Society in Emile Durkheim and Victor Turner
TL;DR: In this paper, a previously unnoticed equivalence between Emile Durkheim's concept of collective effervescence and Turner's communitas is delineated, and a processual model of ritual and society contained within Durdheim's The Elementary Formsof Religious Life, similar to the one later developed by Turner, is outlined.
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A Sociocultural Analysis of a Midwestern American Flea Market
TL;DR: In this paper, an ethnographic case study of a midwestern American flea market is presented, which illustrates the institutional complexity and sociocultural significance of the market and its structure and function.
Journal ArticleDOI
History, Structure, and Ritual
John D. Kelly,Martha Kaplan +1 more
TL;DR: The Gun and Rain this paper is a historical account of the means of destruction in a particular moment of Zimbabwe history, focusing on a specific historical situation, but not a cultural archetype.
Journal ArticleDOI
Ritual and relationships: Interpersonal influences on shared consumption
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the symbolic meaning associated with participation in shared consumption rituals in terms of developing and maintaining social relationships among buyers and explore the social context of this particular form of shared consumption.
Journal ArticleDOI
From Interpretation to Representation in Organizational Analysis: Postmodernism, Ethnography and Organizational Symbolism
TL;DR: The authors argued that the understanding of organization is inseparable from the organization of understanding, and they developed and sustained this argument through detailed consideration of the problematics of interpretation and of representation in organizational analysis.
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Collective Effervescence and Communitas: Processual Models of Ritual and Society in Emile Durkheim and Victor Turner
TL;DR: In this paper, a previously unnoticed equivalence between Emile Durkheim's concept of collective effervescence and Turner's communitas is delineated, and a processual model of ritual and society contained within Durdheim's The Elementary Formsof Religious Life, similar to the one later developed by Turner, is outlined.