TY  - GEN
AU  - Keesing, Roger M
TI  - Conventional Metaphors and Anthropological Metaphysics: the problematic of cultural translation
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Anthropological Metaphysics
KW  - Conventional Metaphors
KW  - Metaphysics
KW  - Ethnographers
KW  - Cultural Translation
N2  - Recent work on conventional metaphor together with reinterpretations of classic studies of "soul substance" and mana are examined to assess the dangers of overinterpretation-the attribution of nonexistent theologies and metaphysics-by ethnographers. In our project of cultural translation, are we prone to attribute deeper salience to other people's way of talk than they in fact imply ?
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