Taking heads
Andrew Strathern, 18 June 1981
Knowledge and Passion: Ilongot Notions of Self and Social Life
by Michelle Rosaldo.
Cambridge, 286 pp., £17.50, April 1980,0 521 22582 5 Show More
by Michelle Rosaldo.
Cambridge, 286 pp., £17.50, April 1980,
“... of which, such as structuralism, have achieved notoriety while remaining obscure and contentious. Michelle Rosaldo is in search of meaning in culture, taking as her object of analysis the ‘text’ of what people say and do and constructing her work essentially as a translation of that text. No ‘ism’ attaches as a label to this enterprise, but it ... ”