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surnames it may also be a
surname for
males and females.
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah (1929–2014),
Ceylonese social anthropologist Alfred Thambiayah (1903–2009)...
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Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah (16
January 1929 – 19
January 2014) was a
social anthropologist and
Esther and
Sidney Rabb
Professor (Emeritus) of Anthropology...
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access or
guide magical power. In The
Magical Power of
Words (1968), S. J.
Tambiah argues that the
connection between language and
magic is due to a belief...
- as the non-physical
basis of the system.
Other metaphors such as S. J.
Tambiah's original idea of a "galactic polity"
describe political patterns similar...
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Henry Wijeyakone Thambiah (also
spelt Tambiah) (1906–1997) was a
Ceylonese academic, diplomat,
lawyer and judge, born in Sri
Lanka during British colonial...
- Brill. pp. 78–79. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_4806. Goody, Jack;
Tambiah,
Stanley (1973).
Bridewealth and Dowry.
Cambridge University Press. pp...
- 1483 CE. Salaman, Van Oyen,
Wharton and Mahé,The Way of Hermes, p. 9
Tambiah (1990), Magic, Science, Religion, and the
Scope of Rationality, pp. 27–28...
- late
Imperial China,
dowry was a form of
female inheritance.
Stanley J.
Tambiah (Goody's co-author on the
earlier "Bridewealth and Dowry")
later argued...
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Marett Roy
Rappaport Saba
Mahmood Marshall Sahlins Melford Spiro Stanley Tambiah Victor Turner Edward Burnett Tylor Daniel Martin Varisco Anthony F. C....
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opposed to religion,
Tambiah suggests that
mankind has a much more
personal control over events. Science,
according to
Tambiah, is "a
system of behavior...
