Rethinking Symbolism

Rethinking Symbolism
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 0521099676
ISBN-13 : 9780521099677
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Book Synopsis Rethinking Symbolism by : Dan Sperber

Download or read book Rethinking Symbolism written by Dan Sperber and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1975-09-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists. He demonstrates that symbols enter all phases of social life: those which we tend to regard as strictly pragmatic, or based on concerns with material need or advantage, as well as those which we tend to view as purely symbolic, such as ideology, ritual, myth, moral codes, and the like. . . ."—Robert McKinley, Reviews in Anthropology


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