Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way - Softcover

Daniel, E. Valentine V.

 
9780520061675: Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520061675 ISBN 13: 9780520061675
Verlag: University of California Press, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

Fluid Signs is the product of anthropological fieldwork carried out among Tamil-speaking villagers in a Hindu village in Southern India. Combining a richness of ethnographic detail with a challenging and innovative theoretical analysis, Daniel argues that symbolic anthropologists have yet to appreciate the multifaceted function of the sign and its role in the creation of culture. This provocative study underscores the need for Western intellectual traditions in general and anthropology in particular to deepen its discourse with South Asian cultural and religious thought.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

E. Valentine Daniel is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and coeditor of Culture/Contexture (California, 1995).

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"Daniel is brilliant, and this work is the product of all his powers of imagination and expression. He is also a flawless scholar: bilingual, so that his translations are accurate; gifted, so that they are charming; well-read, so that his discussions are set in the full context of previous scholarship; and very, very funny, so that his depictions of the quandaries of his informants, as well as himself, are a joy to read."—Wendy O'Flaherty

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"Daniel is brilliant, and this work is the product of all his powers of imagination and expression. He is also a flawless scholar: bilingual, so that his translations are accurate; gifted, so that they are charming; well-read, so that his discussions are set in the full context of previous scholarship; and very, very funny, so that his depictions of the quandaries of his informants, as well as himself, are a joy to read."Wendy O'Flaherty

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1987
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520061675
ISBN 13 
9780520061675
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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