hnuki-Tierney Dale Pest Naomi Quinn Terence Turner Beyond Metaphor The Theory of Tropes in Anthropology Edi by James W. Fernandez Stanford U Stanford,Preface Western thought but in other traditions as well. Anthropologists, cannot pretend to an original subject matter here, But we can pre tend to a particular perspective upon it, one derived from our field experience, cross-cultural for the most part, and our constant re flection on the ethnography of human thought in relation to action and as a shaping force—whether of facilitation or inhibition—in that action. The tropes, we know from our field experience, play an important role in human action and thus enter into any prag ‘matic understanding of things human, We hope to have commun cated something of that notion here. As editor of this volume, a task falling to me as convenor of the symposium, I wish first to thank the contributors for their prompt revision of these papers and for their dispatch in respect to the usual editorial requirements. Michael Silverstein and David Sapir made apposite and stimulating commentaries on the papers at the tend of the symposium itself, We are all grateful for their participa- tion and insights. I would like to thank Stanford Press, and espe- cially our Stanford editors, William Carver and Ellen F. Smith, for their contribution to this volume, Lucille Allsen of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton provided efficient and typing and editing of many of the revised papers, mater tributing to the consolidation of the final manuscript. Dale Pesmen has aided greatly in bibliographic matters, and Deborah Durham prepared the index LW Contents Contribu Introduction: Confluents of Inguiry James W. Fernandez part I. Trope as Cognition and Poetic Discovery p ytropy Paul Friedrich The Cultural Basis of Metaphor ‘Naomi Quinn Metaphor and Experi the Notion of Image Hoyt Alverson art I. The Play of Tropes Twins Are Birds”: Play of Tropes as (Operational Structure ‘Terence Turner Embedding and Transforming Polytrope "The Monkey as Self in Japanese Culture Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney Tropical Dominions: The Figurative Struggle ‘over Domains of Belonging and Apartness in Africa Deborah Durham and James W. Fernandez 7 36 94 ia 159) 190vill Part II]. Metaphor and the Coherence of Culture Reasonable and Unreasonable Worlds: Some Expectations of Coherence in Culture Implied by the Prohibition of Mixed Metaphor Dale Pesmen ‘The Japanese Tea Ceremony: Coherence Theory and Metaphor in Social Adaptation Benjamin N. Colby Bibliography, 263 Index, 287 Contents Contributors ———— ' Hoyt Alverson is Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth Col- lege, He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and has worked ‘on the economics of migration and indust jon and on cog: sitive and linguistic change in Southern Africa. He is currently ‘working on problems in the inguistics and on economic development. Benjamin N. Golby is Professor of Anthropology at the U of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in Social Harvard University, He has worked in Mexico, the United States, ‘and Japan and is currently studying linkages among symbolic be: havior stress, and immunology in elderly Japanese and Anglo ‘women. ‘Deborah Durham received her education at Smith College, Boston University, and the University of pleting her Ph.D. at Chicago on 7 gousness of Community Among the Herero of Botswana,” based on fieldwork in Africa. James W. Femandez is Professor of Anthropology at the Unives- sity of Chicago and was educated at Amherst College and North~ western University. He has worked among Fang, Zulu, Ewe, and Fon in Africa and among cattle keepers and miners in Northern Spain, He is currently preparing an ethnography on the Spanish work. Paul Friedrich is Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and So- ‘ial Thought at the University of Chicago and was educated at Williams College, Harvard University, and Yale University. He has ‘worked among the Tarascans in Mexico, the Nayars in India, and Russian dissidents. He is currently working on a book on Russian