Curriculum Vitae : Work on Metaphor and Tropology
Journal of Religion in Africa, XX. 1. pp. 92-111.1954 "Wasn't It a Thought Titanic?" American Anthropologist, Vol. 56, No. 5:l, p. 742.
1965b "Symbolic Consensus in a Fang Reformative Cult." American Anthropologist, Vol. 67, No. 4, August 1965, pp. 902-927.
1966b "Revitalized Words from the Parrot's Egg and the Bull Who Crashes in the Krall." Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society for 1966, pp. 53-64.
1969b Microcosmogeny and Modernization in African Religious Movements. Occasional Papers, Center for Developing Area Studies, McGill University, 35 pp.
1972a "Persuasions and Performances: Of the Beast in Every Body ...and the Metaphors of Everyman." Daedalus, Vol. 101, No. 1, winter 1972, pp. 39-60.
1973d "Analysis of Ritual: Metaphoric Correspondences as the Elementary Forms." Science, Vol. 182, 28 December 1973, pp. 1366-1367.
1974a "The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture"--With Comments and Rejoinder. Current Anthropology, Vol. 15, No. 2, June 1974, pp. 119-145.
1974b "Paradigms and Other Speculative Instruments of Social Anthropology." Reviews in Anthropology, November 1974, pp. 603-614.
1975b "On the Symbol." Current Anthropology, Vol. 16, pp. 476-478.
1977b "The Performance of Ritual Metaphors," in The Social Use of Metaphor, J.D. Sapir and J.C. Crocker, eds., Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 100-131.
1977d "Symbolic Anthropology Evolving." Reviews in Anthropology, Vol. 4, No. 2, March-April 1977, pp. 133-142.
1978c "Comment" on Brenda E. F. Beck, "The Metaphor as Mediator between Semantic and Analogic Modes of Thought," in Current Anthropology, Vol. XIX, No. 1, March 1978.
1979c "Syllogisms of Association: Some Modern Extensions of Asturian Deepsong," in Folklore in the Modern World, R. Dorson, ed., pp. 183-206. The Hague: Mouton.
1979f Review of S.R. Levin, The Semantics of Metaphor, in Language in Society, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 281-284.
1980b "Reflections on Looking into Mirrors." Semiotica, Vol. 30, Nos. 1-2, pp. 27-39.
1981a Co-Editor: Special Issue on Symbolism and Cognition. American Ethnologist, Vol. 8, No. 3.
1981b (with Janet W.D. Dougherty) Introduction to Special Issue on Symbolism and Cognition, American Ethnologist, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 413-421.
1981c (with Benjamin N. Colby and David Kronenfeld) "Toward a Convergence of Cognitive and Symbolic Anthropology." Special Issue on Symbolism and Cognition, American Ethnologist, Vol, 8, No. 3, pp. 442-450.
1982a "The Dark at the Bottom of the Stairs: The Inchoate in Symbolic Inquiry and Some Strategies for Coping with It," in On Symbols in Anthropology: Essays in Honor of Harry Hoijer--1980, pp. 13-43. Malibu: Undena.
1982b Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 731 pp. M.J. Herkovits Prize for 1983 of the African Studies Association.
1982c Co-Editor: Special Issue on Symbolism and Cognition, II. American Ethnologist. Vol.9. No.4.
1982d (with Janet W.D. Dougherty) Afterword to Special Issue (II) on Symbolism and Cognition, American Ethnologist, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 820-832.
1984d "Convivial Attitudes: The Ironic Play of Tropes in an International Kayak Festival in Northern Spain," in Text, Play, and Story: The Construction and Reconstruction of Self and Society, 1983 Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society, Edward M. Bruner, ed., pp. 199-229. Washington, D.C.: American Ethnological Society.
1984f "En torno a una vaca ratina (Metáforas vivas y la cultura que ello implica)." Lletres Asturianes-13, Boletin Oficial de l'Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, Pincipau d'Asturies, pp. 45-53. Oviedo.
1984g "Moving Up in the World: Transcendence "in" Symbolic Anthropology." Stanford Literature Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, fall 1984, pp. 201-226.
1985a "Exploded Worlds--Text as a Metaphor for Ethnography (and Vice Versa)." Dialectical Anthropology Vol. 10, pp. 15-26.
1985b "Campos Léxicos (Desplazamiento Semántico y Movimiento Regionalista)." Lletres Asturianes-18, Boletin Oficial de l'Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, Principau d'Asturies, pp. 55-69.
1986b "The Argument of Images and the Experience of Returning to the Whole," in The Anthropology of Experience, Victor W. Turner and Edward M. Bruner, eds., pp. 159-187. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
1986d Persuasions and Performances: The Play of Tropes in Culture. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press.
1988d. "El dominio del tropo: Poesía popular y convivencia social. Gracian y Costa en el campo. Anales de la Fundación Joaquin Costa, No. 5. Madrid 1988. pp. 21-35.
1989c "The Lively Potential of Dead Metaphors", Reply to Roger M. Keesing,"Exotic Readings of Cultural Texts", Current Anthropology, Vol. 30, No. 4. Aug-Oct. 1989. pp. 470-471.
1990a "Huecos léxicos y revitalización lingüística en el asturiano moderno," in Lletres Asturianes - 35.January-February, 1990. pgs. 51-66. (Reprinted in Literatura, San Sebastian, Vol 8-9. 1990. pgs. 124-152.)
1990b "The Body in Bwiti: Variations on a Theme by Richard Werbner."
1991a Beyond Metaphor: The Theory of Tropes in Anthropology. J. W. Fernandez ed. Stanford Univ Press. Summer 1991. Preface and Introduction.
1991d Deborah Durham and J.W. Fernandez, "Tropical Dominions: The Figurative Struggle Over Domains of Belonging and Apartness in Africa" in J.W. Fernandez ed. Beyond Metaphor: The Theory of Tropes in Anthropology. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press. pgs. 179-208.
1991f "Embodiment and Disembodiment in Bwiti," in Anita Jacobson-Widding (ed), Body and Space: Symbolic Models of Unity and Division in African Cosmology and Experience, Stockholm: Almquist and Wiksell. 1991. pgs. 315-334.
1992d "What I learned from "The Parrott's Egg" and "The Bull Who Crashes in the Kraal:" The Senses of Time Binding and Turn Taking in Being With the Other." in Dialectical Anthropology: Essays in Honor of Stanley Diamond. Vol II. The Politics of Culture and Creativity: A Critique of Civilization. Christine Ward Gailey (ed). Gainesville: University of Florida Press, pgs 209- 216.
1993d "Emergencias Etnográficas: Tiempos Heroicos, Tiempos Ironicos y la Tarea Etnográfica," Lección Inaugural - VI Congreso de Antropólogos Españoles, Tenerife. in Joan Bestard i Camps (Coord). Despues de Malinowski. La Laguna: Dirección General de Patrimonio Histórico. pgs. 33-67.
1994b "Time on Our Hands," in Don D. Fowler and Don L. Hardesty (eds) Others Knowing Others:Perspectives on Ethnographic Careers, Washington: Smithsonian Inst. Press. pgs 118- 144.
1994c "Egocentric Particulars: Pronominal Perspectives in Ethnographic Inquiry," in Gilles Bibeau and Ellen Corin (eds) The Order of the Text, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. pgs 303-326.
1994e "Spielerisch und planvoll: Zur Theorie der Tropen in der Anthropologie," in Historische Anthropologie. Vol II. (1) 1994. 1-19.
1995a "Culture and Transcendent Humanization: On the Dynamic of the Categorical," Ethnos, Vol 59 (3-4). 1994. 143-167.
1996a "Amazing Grace: Meaning Deficit, Displacement and New Consciousness in Expressive Interaction," in Questions of Consciousness," Anthony P. Cohen and Nigel Rapport (eds), ASA Monograph 33. London: Routledge. pgs. 21-40.
1996b Campos Léxicos y Vida Cultural N'Asturies Uviéu: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana.
1996c "Patrolling the Border: Experiments on the Frontiers of Poetics," American Anthropologist Vol. 98 (4) December: 853-856.
1998b "Afterwords," in John Leavitt (ed), Poetry and Prophecy, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
1998c "Trees of Knowledge of Self and other in Culture: On Models of the Moral Imagination," in Laura Rival and Maurice Bloch (eds), The Social Use of Trees, Oxford: Berg. Pgs 81-110.
1998d "With Michael Herzfeld, "Meaningful Methods," in Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology, H. Russell Bernard (ed), London, Walnut Creek, New Delhi: Sage. 1998: pgs 89-129.
1999a "Peripheral Wisdom," in Anthony Cohen (ed), Signifying Identities: Anthropological perspectives on Boundaries and Contested Values. London and New York: Routledge. Pp. 117-144.
2001 with Mary Taylor Huber (eds), Irony in Action: Anthropology, Practice and the Moral Imagination, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Preface, Introduction and Afterword.