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Psychoanalysis and ceremonyessay 1972 • Bott, Elizabeth
Tongans • Oceania > Polynesia
In this study, Bott uses ideas from both anthropology and psychoanalysis (her training is in both fields) to attempt to understand the meaning of the kava ceremony in Tongan culture. She describes the ceremony in detail, including seating arrangement...A rejoinder to Edmund Leachessay 1972 • Bott, Elizabeth
Tongans • Oceania > Polynesia
This source is a critique of Leach's evaluation of Bott's analysis of the Tongan kava ceremony (documents 82: Leach and 81:Bott), with which Bott is in substantial disagreement, though she points out his structuralist methodology is no more falsifiab...