| List of Illustrations | |
| Preface: AnThoreaupology: An Invitation | |
| Rehearsals | 3 |
| An Endlessly Extra-Vagant Scholar: Kenneth Burke | 3 |
| A Similar Genre: Opera | 9 |
| Plus Melville, Cavell, Commodity-Life; Showbiz | 14 |
| Pt. 1 | Rituals, Rereading, Rhetorical Turns | 21 |
| Ch. 1 | Re Menses: Rereading Ruth Benedict, Ultraobjectively | 23 |
| Ch. 2 | Of Foreskins: (Un)Circumcision, Religious Histories, Difficult Description (Montaigne/Remondino) | 43 |
| Ch. 3 | About a Footnote: Between-the-Wars Bali: Its Relics Regained | 73 |
| Interlude: Essay-etudes and Tristimania | 97 |
| Pt. 2 | Multimediations: Coincidence, Memory, Magics | 101 |
| Ch. 4 | Cosmopolitan Moments: As-if Confessions of an Ethnographer-Tourist (Echoey "Cosmomes") | 103 |
| Ch. 5 | Why Museums Make Me Sad (Eccentric Musings) | 124 |
| Ch. 6 | Litterytoor 'n' Anthropolygee: An Experimental Wedding of Incongruous Styles from Mark Twain and Marcel Mauss | 143 |
| Pt. 3 | Cross-over Studies, Seriocomic Critique | 167 |
| A Little Polemic, Quizzically | 169 |
| Ch. 7 | Against Coping Across Cultures: Self-help Semiotics Rebuffed | 176 |
| Ch. 8 | Errant Anthropology, with Apologies to Chaucer | 191 |
| Ch. 9 | Margins and Hierarchies and Rhetorics That Subjugate | 198 |
| Ch. 10 | Evermore Derrida, Always the Same (What Gives?) | 211 |
| Ch. 11 | Taking Torgovnick as She Takes Others | 221 |
| Ch. 12 | Rerun (1980s): Mary Douglas's Grid/Group Grilled | 230 |
| Ch. 13 | Update (1990s): Coca-Cola Consumes Baudrillard, and a Balinese (Putu) Consumes Coca-Cola | 249 |
| Encores and Envoi: Burke, Cavell, etc., Unforgotten | 263 |
| Acknowledgments and Credits | 279 |
| Notes | 283 |
| References | 315 |
| Index | 357 |
