J Christopher Crocker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3843367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Christopher Crocker |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Crocker |
| SIGNATURE | CROCKER J C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dialectical Societies: The Gê and Bororo of Central Brazil
The Gê-speaking tribes of Central Brazil have always been an anomaly in the annals of anthropology; their exceedingly simple technology contrasts sharply with their highly complex sociological and ideological traditions. Dialectical Societies , the outgrowth of extended anthropological research organized by David Maybury-Lewis, at long last demystifies Gê social structure while modifying and reinterpreting some of the traditional ideas held about…
The Social Use of Metaphor: Essays on the Anthropology of Rhetoric
The Metaphor as a Mediator Between Semantic and Analogic Modes of Thought [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropologists have overlooked the importance of the metaphor in human culture. Core etaphors can help us identify ultimate cosmic constructs underlying a given social or religious world view. But, even more centrally, metaphors can serve as key data in our attempts to understand how a cultural system adapts to and incorporates sensated experience from the physical world. Metaphors thus provide both a "reality" principle and a "tool" for change.…
The Social Use of Metaphor: Essays on the Anthropology of Rhetoric
Through the use of language, as symbolic action, man attempts to control his social, natural, and supernatural environments. In this book J. David Sapir, J. Christopher Crocker, and their fellow contributors investigate the nature of metaphor and related symbolic forms as a means of coming to terms with the world.
Chapter 6. My Brother the Parrot
The Clandestine Ox: The Transformations of an African Tale
ATALE DIFFUSED throughout West Africa possesses, in its initial episode, the motif of a person entering the body of a living animal (ox, bull, cow, elephant) in order to feed upon it; a theme that in memory of a novel by Marcel Ayme we propose to name The Clandestine Ox. A Bambara version will give a fuller idea of the events which follow this beginning in the canonical intrigue.1 During a famine Hare sneaks into the stomach of a bull belonging t…
The Mirrored Self: Identity and Ritual Inversion among the Eastern Bororo
This article examines the ritual inversion practiced by the Eastern Bororo of central Brazil during funeral ceremonies. It argues that the ritual clowns, who mimic the behavior of the deceased, serve as "mirrored selves," reflecting back to the mourners the social identity of the deceased and thereby facilitating the process of mourning and social reintegration. The clowns' exaggerated imitation of the dead person's characteristic behaviors and s…
Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians
Walbiri Iconography: Graphic Representation and Cultural Symbolism in a Central Australian Society
Reciprocity and Hierarchy Among the Eastern Bororo
Reciprocity and Hierarchy Among the Eastern Bororo
The Metaphor as a Mediator Between Semantic and Analogic Modes of Thought [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropologists have overlooked the importance of the metaphor in human culture. Core etaphors can help us identify ultimate cosmic constructs underlying a given social or religious world view. But, even more centrally, metaphors can serve as key data in our attempts to understand how a cultural system adapts to and incorporates sensated experience from the physical world. Metaphors thus provide both a "reality" principle and a "tool" for change.…
The Mirrored Self: Identity and Ritual Inversion among the Eastern Bororo
This article examines the ritual inversion practiced by the Eastern Bororo of central Brazil during funeral ceremonies. It argues that the ritual clowns, who mimic the behavior of the deceased, serve as "mirrored selves," reflecting back to the mourners the social identity of the deceased and thereby facilitating the process of mourning and social reintegration. The clowns' exaggerated imitation of the dead person's characteristic behaviors and s…
Reciprocity and Hierarchy Among the Eastern Bororo
Walbiri Iconography: Graphic Representation and Cultural Symbolism in a Central Australian Society
Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians
The Social Use of Metaphor: Essays on the Anthropology of Rhetoric
Through the use of language, as symbolic action, man attempts to control his social, natural, and supernatural environments. In this book J. David Sapir, J. Christopher Crocker, and their fellow contributors investigate the nature of metaphor and related symbolic forms as a means of coming to terms with the world.
Chapter 6. My Brother the Parrot
The Clandestine Ox: The Transformations of an African Tale
ATALE DIFFUSED throughout West Africa possesses, in its initial episode, the motif of a person entering the body of a living animal (ox, bull, cow, elephant) in order to feed upon it; a theme that in memory of a novel by Marcel Ayme we propose to name The Clandestine Ox. A Bambara version will give a fuller idea of the events which follow this beginning in the canonical intrigue.1 During a famine Hare sneaks into the stomach of a bull belonging t…
The Mirrored Self: Identity and Ritual Inversion among the Eastern Bororo
This article examines the ritual inversion practiced by the Eastern Bororo of central Brazil during funeral ceremonies. It argues that the ritual clowns, who mimic the behavior of the deceased, serve as "mirrored selves," reflecting back to the mourners the social identity of the deceased and thereby facilitating the process of mourning and social reintegration. The clowns' exaggerated imitation of the dead person's characteristic behaviors and s…
The Metaphor as a Mediator Between Semantic and Analogic Modes of Thought [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropologists have overlooked the importance of the metaphor in human culture. Core etaphors can help us identify ultimate cosmic constructs underlying a given social or religious world view. But, even more centrally, metaphors can serve as key data in our attempts to understand how a cultural system adapts to and incorporates sensated experience from the physical world. Metaphors thus provide both a "reality" principle and a "tool" for change.…
Dialectical Societies: The Gê and Bororo of Central Brazil
The Gê-speaking tribes of Central Brazil have always been an anomaly in the annals of anthropology; their exceedingly simple technology contrasts sharply with their highly complex sociological and ideological traditions. Dialectical Societies , the outgrowth of extended anthropological research organized by David Maybury-Lewis, at long last demystifies Gê social structure while modifying and reinterpreting some of the traditional ideas held about…
The Social Use of Metaphor: Essays on the Anthropology of Rhetoric
Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Metaphor (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Genealogy (2 works)