The Ceremonial Animal

Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Khartoum, Sudan, 1964-69; research and visiting positions in Oxford, aarhus (Denmark, and Bergen (Norway), 1969-72; University Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, and Fellow of St Cross College, 1972; appointed Professor in 1996. Fellow of the British Academy, 1999; President, Royal Anthropological Institute, 2001-; Vice-President, British Institute in Eastern Africa, 2001-. (For list of publications see APF).

• FOREWORD ; By Michael J. Lambek, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto ; THE QUEST FOR PATTERN ; 1. Key Questions in Anthropology ; 2. Dialogues with Grand Theory ; SHAPE AND RHYTHM IN SOCIAL FORMS ; 3. Species, Space, and Time ; 4. Daughters of the Dance ; 5. On Ritual and Social Memoey ; LANGUAGE AND THE MAKING OF PERSONS ; 6. Language and Social Engagement ; 7. The Dialectics of Gender and Generation ; 8. Human Bodies, Social Persons, and Selves ; PRACTICE AND POLITICS IN THE CEREMONIAL ARENA ; 9. Place, Home, and Habitus ; 10. Work, Wealth, and Exchange ; 11. Theatres of Power, War, and Peace ; LARGE-SCALE MODERN FORMS ; 12. The New Spaces: Cities and Popular Culture ; 13. The Modern Person and 'The Market' ; 14. States, 'Nations', and the Struggles of the People ; CONCLUDING ESSAY ; 15. Anthropology as a Human Science: Conversations with History and Religion ; Notes ; Select Bibliography