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Greg Urban, Metaphysical community: The interplay of the senses and the intellect. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 288. Hb $40.00, pb $19.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1999

Asif Agha
Affiliation:
Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, [email protected]

Abstract

Urban's book may be regarded, at one level, as an exploration of certain traditional anthropological themes – such as social structure, myth, and ritual – in the context of an Amerindian community in Brazil. What makes the book highly non-traditional, however, is how these themes are worked into a discussion of very basic epistemological and methodological concerns: the nature of ethnographic inquiry, criteria for the truth or correctness of ethnographic claims, and the role played by discourse in organizing cultural experience and shaping the outcome of fieldwork.

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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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