The Anthropology of Experience

Fourteen authors, including many of the best-known scholars in the field,explore how people actually experience their culture and how those experiences are expressed in forms as varied as narrative, literary work, theater, carnival, ritual, reminiscence, and life review. Their studies will beof special interest for anyone working in anthropological theory, symbolicanthropology, and contemporary social and cultural anthropology, and useful as well for other social scientists, folklorists, literary theorists, and philosophers.