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Persuasions and Performances - The Play of Tropes in Culture

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Klappentext Fernandez. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction AcknowledgmentsPart I. Persuasions 1. Persuasions and Performances: Of the Beast in Every Body and the Metaphors of Everyman 2. The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive CulturePart II. Performances 3. Poetry in Motion: Being Moved by Amusement, Mockery, and Mortality in the Asturian Mountains 4. Syllogisms of Association: Some Modern Extensions of Asturian Deepsong 5. Lexical Fields: And Some Movements About, Within, and Between Them 6. Some Reflections on Looking into Mirrors 7. Edification by Puzzlement 8. Returning to the Whole 9. The Dark at the Bottem of the Stairs: The Inchoate in Symbolic Inquire and Some Strategies for Coping with It 10. Moving up in the world: Transcendence in Symbolic Anthropology 11. Convivial Attitudes: A Northern Spanish Kayak Festival in Its Historical MomentIndex

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Introduction

Acknowledgments

Part I. Persuasions

1. Persuasions and Performances: Of the Beast in Every Body and the Metaphors of Everyman

2. The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture

Part II. Performances

3. Poetry in Motion: Being Moved by Amusement, Mockery, and Mortality in the Asturian Mountains

4. Syllogisms of Association: Some Modern Extensions of Asturian Deepsong

5. Lexical Fields: And Some Movements About, Within, and Between Them

6. Some Reflections on Looking into Mirrors

7. Edification by Puzzlement

8. Returning to the Whole

9. The Dark at the Bottem of the Stairs: The Inchoate in Symbolic Inquire and Some Strategies for Coping with It

10. Moving up in the world: Transcendence in Symbolic Anthropology

11. Convivial Attitudes: A Northern Spanish Kayak Festival in Its Historical Moment

Index


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James W. Fernandez

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Authors James W Fernandez, James W. Fernandez
Publisher Indiana University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 22.09.1986
 
EAN 9780253203748
ISBN 978-0-253-20374-8
No. of pages 304
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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