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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...
- surnames it may also be a surname for males and females. Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah (1929–2014), Ceylonese social anthropologist Alfred Thambiayah (1903–2009)...
- 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...
- late Imperial China, dowry was a form of female inheritance. Stanley J. Tambiah later argued that Goody's overall thesis remained pertinent in North India...
- opposed to religion, Tambiah suggests that mankind has a much more personal control over events. Science, according to Tambiah, is "a system of behavior...
- Henry Wijeyakone Tambiah (1906–1997) was a Ceylonese academic, diplomat, lawyer and judge, born in Sri Lanka during British colonial rule. He was a Commissioner...
- Ozment Roy Rappaport Saba Mahmood Marshall Sahlins Melford Spiro Stanley Tambiah Victor Turner Edward Burnett Tylor Daniel Martin Varisco Anthony F. C....
- J. Tambiah, believe that magic is meant to be expressive, rather than instrumental. As opposed to the direct, mimetic thinking of Frazer, Tambiah ****erts...
- about Thai religion during this period. Anthropologist-historian S. J. Tambiah has suggested a general pattern for that era, at least with respect to...
- non-physical basis of the system.[citation needed] Other metaphors such as S. J. Tambiah's original idea of a "galactic polity" describe political patterns similar...