Comments on: No April fools: read Valeri’s “Rites and Annals” /2014/04/09/no-april-fools-read-valeris-rites-and-annals/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: Rex /2014/04/09/no-april-fools-read-valeris-rites-and-annals/comment-page-1/#comment-817182 Tue, 15 Apr 2014 20:56:09 +0000 /?p=10625#comment-817182 You know, I still think that. That says a lot about Valeri’s skill — as well as the way the literature on taboo has not grown a lot in the past ten years! In the introduction to Rites and Annals, Rupert Stasch links to Mary Douglas’s review of the book, which is equally laudatory.

Antti, thanks for the correction. I will update the blog entry.

]]> By: A. J. West (@AlWest13) /2014/04/09/no-april-fools-read-valeris-rites-and-annals/comment-page-1/#comment-817168 Tue, 15 Apr 2014 19:03:27 +0000 /?p=10625#comment-817168 Rex, I notice you wrote an Amazon review of The Forest of Taboos a dozen years ago, giving it five stars and calling it a ‘Definitive Account of Taboo’. Do you still agree with this assessment, or with Valeri’s argument? Seems like you’ve been following Valeri for some time, in any case!

]]> By: Antti Leppänen /2014/04/09/no-april-fools-read-valeris-rites-and-annals/comment-page-1/#comment-817123 Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:21:45 +0000 /?p=10625#comment-817123 A small correction: the autobiographical essay you mention was published in Norway:
Valeri, V. 1992. “On the train to Chicago, via Paris, or: Confessions of an idiosyncratic anthropologist.” Antropolognytt (Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway) 4, 31-44.
Otherwise, your assessment of our journal, “excellent but obscure,” is about correct…

]]> By: John McCreery /2014/04/09/no-april-fools-read-valeris-rites-and-annals/comment-page-1/#comment-816883 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 05:43:53 +0000 /?p=10625#comment-816883 Thanks, Rex. Valeri was unknown to me. Only read Sahlin’s preface so far. That said, this looks good.

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