Incluye referencias bibliográficas.

Belief and worship / translated from the Italian by Lynn Westwater -- Caste / Translated from the Italian by Nicholas DeMaria Harney -- Ceremonial -- Cosmogonic myths and order / Translated from the Italian by Sarah Hill and revised by Alice Elliot -- Cultural relativism / translated from the French by Eléonore Rimbault -- Feasting and festivity / translated from the Italian by Sarah Hill -- The fetish / translated from the Italian by Sarah Hill -- Kingship / translated from the Italian by Lynn Westwater and revised by Alice Elliot -- Mourning -- Play / translated by Nicholas DeMaria Harney -- Rite / Translated from the Italian by Stefano Mengozzi and revised by Alice Elliot -- Appendix : Marcel Mauss and the new anthropology / translated from the Italian by Alice Elliot.

The late anthropologist Valerio Valeri (1944-98) was best known for his substantial writings on societies of Polynesia and eastern Indonesia. This volume, however, presents a lesser-known side of Valeri's genius through a dazzlingly erudite set of comparative essays on core topics in the history of anthropological theory. Offering masterly discussions of anthropological thought about ritual, fetishism, cosmogonic myth, belief, caste, kingship, mourning, play, feasting, ceremony, and cultural relativism, Classic Concepts in Anthropology, presented here with a critical foreword by Rupert Stasch and Giovanni da Col, will be an eye-opening, essential resource for students and researchers not only in anthropology but throughout the humanities.