Présentation : les discours du rituel

Abstract

I’m not particularly interested in « smoothed-over » versions of native culture. I like the stuff in the raw, as felt and dictated by the natives […] the genuine, difficult, confusing, primary sources. These must be presented, whatever else is done […]. There are too many glib monographs most of which time will show to be highly subjective performances. We need to develop in cultural anthropology that anxious respect for documentary evidence that is so familiar to the historian, and the class...