Culture and Communication - The Logic By Which Symbols Are Connected. An Introduction to Use of

Klappentext Edmund Leach's book investigates the writings of 'structuralists' and their theories in anthropology. Zusammenfassung Edmund Leach's book investigates the writings of 'structuralists!' and their different theories: the general incest theory! of animal sacrifice and how signs and symbols convey meaning. This book is designed for the use of teaching undergraduates in anthropology! linguistics! literary studies! philosophy and related disciplines faced with structuralist argument. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Edmund Leach, Edmund Ronald Leach
• Assisted by: Jack Goody (Editor), Geoffrey Hawthorn (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.03.1976
• EAN: 9780521290524
• ISBN: 978-0-521-29052-4
• No. of pages: 116
• Series: Themes in the Social Sciences; Themes in the Social Sciences
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories