Description
Beyond ecologic, economic and kinship relationships, this is a study of symbolic behaviour–notably verbal communication, attitudes towards 'strangers' and witchcraft practices. This book demonstrates how predictable behaviour, on which social life depends, is generated and coded in Cat Harbour.
Reviews
Faris provides his reader with a sensitive portrait of life in Cat Harbour. His analysis of his ethnographic data is rigorous, well controlled, and workmanlike.
- Leif C. W. Landberg, American Anthropologist