Table of Contents

1. Representations and Cognitive Contradictions. 2. Icons and Iconoclasm in Africa? Absence and Ambivalence. 3. Relics and the Cognitive Contradiction of Mortal Remains and Immortal Longings. 4. Theatre, Rites and Representations of the Other. 5. The Uneven Distribution of Myth. 6. Fact and Fiction: Objections to the Novel. 7. Representations of Sex and their Rejection. 8. Culture and Cognition. Bibliography. Index.

About the Author

Jack Goody is a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge from 1973 to 1985. He has written extensively on the family, memory, ritual, and literacy, in a wide variety of regional and historical contexts. His many books include Death, Property and the Ancestors (1962), The Domestication of the Savage Mind (1977), The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe (1983), and The Culture of Flowers (1993).