Title Culture & Communication : The Logic by Which Symbols Are Connected, an Introduction to the Use of Structural Analysis in Social Anthropology

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1976 1976

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Description 105pages Series Themes in the social sciences Themes in the social sciences. Contents Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- 1. Empiricists and rationalists: economic transactions and acts of communication -- 2. Problems of terminology -- 3. Objects, sense-images, concepts -- 4. Signals and indices -- 5. Transformations -- 6. Theories of magic and sorcery -- 7. The symbolic ordering of a man-made world: boundaries of social space and time -- 8. The material representation of abstract ideas: ritual condensation -- 9. Orchestral performance as a metaphor for ritual sequence -- 10. The physiological basis of sign/symbol sets -- 11. Mapping: time and space as reciprocal representations -- 12. Rank order and orientation -- 13. Examples of binary coding -- 14. Mating prescriptions and proscriptions -- 15. Logic and mytho-logic -- 16. Basic cosmology -- 17. Rites of transition (rites de passage) -- 18. The logic of sacrifice -- 19. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Analysis Semiotics Structural anthropology Social anthropology Structuralism Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 99-102 Subject Anthropology. Communication. Culture. Semiotics. Signs and symbols. Structural anthropology. Symbolism (Psychology) Anthropology, Cultural. Anthropology. Communication. Culture. Symbolism. LC no. 75030439 ISBN 052121131X

Other Titles Culture and communication : the logic by which symbols are connected

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