. By Peter Harries‐Jones Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas… ‐ and meantime it is only puss and her tail. How long before our masquerade will end its noise and tambourines, laughter and shouting, and we shall find it was a solitary performance? A subject and an object ‐it takes so much to make the galvanic circuit complete, but magnitude adds nothing. What imports it whether it is Kepler and the sphere, Columbus and America, a reader and his book, or puss with her tail?

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Abstracts

Fredrlck Barth: Economy, agency and ordinary lives/Economle, pensée opératoire et vies ordlnalres/Wlrtschaft, Aktlonsfählgkelt und gewöhnilche Leben/Economía, acclón y vldas ordinarlas J. P. Klernan: Images of rejection in the construction of morality: Satan and the sorcerer as moral signposts in the social landscape of urban Zionlsts/lmages du rejet dans la construction d'une morale: Satan et Le Sorcier comme emblemes du paysage soclal des zlonlstes en mllleu urbaln/Biider der Zuruckwelsung In der Konstruktlon von Moralitat: Satan und Zauberer als morallsche Zelchen In der sozialen Landschaft stadtlscher Zlonisten/lmBgenes de rechazo en la construcch de la moralidad Satan y el brujo como emblemas en el palsaje soclal dei Slonismo urbano Jacques Lemolne: Functlon and rebellion. The place of women wlthin and at the periphery of the Chlnese world/Fonction et rebelllon. La place de la femme B I'lnterleur et á la phlpherle du monde chlnols/Funktlon und Rebellion. Dle Stellung der Frau lnnerhalb und an der Perlpherle der chlneslschen Welt/Funclon y rebellon. El lugar de las mujeres en el Interlor y en la perlferla del mundo chino