1. For overviews of this issue, see James Boone, Other Tribes, Other Scribes: Symbolic Anthropology in the Comparative Study of Cultures, Histories, Religions, and Texts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982); James Clifford, “Introduction: Partial Truths,” in Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, edited by J. Clifford and G. E. Marcus (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986); and Michel De Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984).

2. Important discussions of the relationship between conceptions of the human body and social structure include Victor Turner, “Encounter with Freud: The Making of a Comparative Symbologist,” in The Making of Psychological Anthropology, edited by G. D. Spindler (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978); Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction (New York: Random House, 1978); and Susan Kus, “Taking Symbols Seriously,” paper presented at the CNRS/NSF Seminar “Symbolic, Structural, and Semiotic Approaches in Archaeology,” Bloomington, Ind., 5–10 Oct. 1987.

3. Practical reason is a term coined by Marshall Sahlins, Culture and Practical Reason (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976). Rational choice theory is discussed in A. Heath, Rational Choice and Social Exchange (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976).