Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Of Scholars, Gamblers and Thieves 1
2. Has There Ever Been a Crisis in Ethnological Representation? 10
The Ethnographer as 'Man' 11
The Ethnological Representation Par Excellence 19
3. The Salvation Intent 28
The Three Strategies of Redemption 28
Christian Ethnology and Victorian Anthropology 34
Twentieth-Century Paradigms 43
The Ethnological Complicity 56
4. What the Natives Don't Know 60
The Sociocultural Unconscious 60
Heterodox Consciousness 74
The 'Heroisation' of the Thinking Subject 82
5. The Ethnological Will to Meaning 92
The Impossible 92
Sameness and the Beyond 105
The Will to Meaning 112
At the End of the Game 117.