Culture and Communication The Logic by Which Symbols Are Connected - An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Social Anthropology

Name: Culture and Communication The Logic by Which Symbols Are Connected - An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Social Anthropology
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ISBN: 9780521290524

ISBN-10: 052129052X

ISBN-13: 9780521290524

Edition: 1976

Authors: Edmund R. Leach, John Dunn, Jack Goody, Geoffrey Hawthorn

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The recent spread of 'structuralist' writing has been hailed as the dawn of a new age and condemned as an intellectual disaster but, like all fashionable diseases, it is more talked about than understood. Edmund Leach's new book is designed for the use if teaching undergraduates in anthropology, linguistics, literary studies, philosophy and related disciplines faced for the first time with structuralist argument; it provides the prolegomena necessary to understand the final chapter of Levi-Strauss's massive four-volume Mythologiques. The objective is complex, the manner simple. Some prior knowledge of anthropological literature is useful but not essential; the principal ethnographic source…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 1976
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/26/1976
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 116
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Introduction



Empiricists and rationalists: economic transactions and acts of communication



Problems of terminology



Objects, sense-images, concepts



Signals and indices



Transformations



Theories of magic and sorcery



The symbolic ordering of a man-made world: boundaries of social space and time



The material representation of abstract ideas: ritual condensation



Orchestral performance as a metaphor for ritual sequence



The physiological basis of sign/symbol sets



Mapping: time and space as reciprocal representations



Rank order and orientation



Examples of binary coding



Mating prescriptions and proscriptions



Logic and mytho-logic



Basic cosmology



Rites of transition (rites de passage)



The logic of sacrifice



Conclusion


Bibliography


Index