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The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology.

Roland Littlewood · Gananath Obeyesekere

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The Work of Culture is the product of two decades of field research by Sri Lanka's most distinguished anthropological interpreter, and its combination of textual analysis, ethnographic sensitivity, and methodological catholicity makes it something of a blockbuster.--Arjun Appadurai, Journal of Asian Studies

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