Symbol and Theory

accept actors anthropocentric anthropologists anti-realism anti-realist attitudes Azande Beattie causal chapter character characteristics claim code behaviour conception connexion consider contagious transfer context contrast conventional cosmology Dinka discussion distinction distinguish Durkheim effect efficacy Evans-Pritchard ex opere operato example experience explain explanatory expression fact feeling formal Frazer function given Horton idea intellectualism intellectualist interaction ceremonies interaction code interpretation involved Kalabari kind language-game literalist logic magic and religion magical action natural non-natural meaning norms notion Nuer object operative action operative acts paradoxes perfect contrition performed person philosophical question realist recognised relation relationship relativism relativist religion religious cosmologies rights and obligations rites ritual actions rules sacrament scientific thought sense Shilluk simply social social anthropology society spell spirits symbolic action symbolic enactment symbolist theoretical thesis things tion traditional culture traditional religious thought traditional thinker traditional thought Tylor underdetermination verificationist words Zande