Responsibility
(editor): Poirier, Jean
Title
(): Histoire des moeurs
Details
(place)Paris: (publisher)Gallimard/Pléiade, 1991
Identifier
POIRIER 1991
Topics
Comments
An uneven and poorly documented collection of delightfully readable and occasionally very inspiring French essays in comparative cultural anthropology.
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Electronic Version
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ADDICTED (p.2699-802)AGRICULTURE (p.1.1279)BODY (p.3.419)BOOK (p.3.247-300)BUDDHIST GARMENT (p.1.961)CALENDAR (p.1.181)CANNIBALISM (p.3.459-499)CHINESE LANGUAGE (p.1.7-75)[Very good on the ethnography of language use.]COLOUR (p.1.115)COPULATE (p.2.929-978)CULTURE (p.3.1521-1550)DAUGHTER-IN-LAW (p.2.535-610)DEFECATE (p.1.831)DIE (p.2.2.803-874)DOMESTIC ANIMAL (p.1.1307)EAT (p.1.1447)ECONOMY (p.2.437-496)EDUCATE (p.2.309-375)ETHICS (p.2.979-1044)EXCREMENT (p.1.831)EXOTIC (p.3.598)FEAST (p.1.269)FOOD (p.1.1447)FURNITURE (p.1.1074)GARMENT (p.1.961)GENRE (p.2.1403)GESTURE (p.2.75-246)HAIRSTYLE (p.1.723)HAND (p.2.75-163)HIERARCHY (p.2.378-436)HUMAN (p.901)IDEOLOGY (p.2.1419-1487)LANGUAGE (p.2.7-75)LAUGH (p.2.247-309)[Insubstantial but occasionally inspiring.]LEISURE (p.2.1186-1307)MAD (p.3.767-824)MEAL (p.1.1447)MEDICINE (p.1.775)MUSEUM (p.3.185)MUTILATE (p.1.483)NEW (p.3.11-78)PENALTY (p.2.611-698)PERFUME (p.1.679)PHILOSOPHY (p.2.1488- 1544)POLITE (p.3.702-766)POSTMODERN (p.3.1551-1622)PUNISH (p.2.611-698)SLAVE (p.3.499-541)SPACE (p.1.59)STYLE (p.2.1308-1402)SUPERSTITION (p.2.1045-1094)SYMBOL (p.2.1085-1185)TEACH (p.2.309-375)TOILET (p.1.601)TRANSPORT (p.1.1166)WARFARE (p.3.347)