Culture and Communication The Logic by which Symbols Are Connected. An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Social Anthropology
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Culture and communication: the logic by which symbols are connected
- 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
Culture and communication: the logic by which symbols are connected
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Culture and communication: the logic by which symbols are connected
- 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
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- Culture and CommunicationThe Logic by which Symbols Are Connected. An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Social Anthropology, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1976
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