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Zustand: very good. Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1975. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xi, 264 pp. Owners stamp on title page. - Symbols and symbolism are, and always have been, an integral part of myth, belief, ideology, ritual, art, fantasy. These basic areas of human activity are traditionally boundaries of such diverse disciplines as po…litical science, religious sociology, psychology and literature. Rather, it draws upon all these sources, and more: the result is both an introduction to and a perspective on the developing (though as yet by no means clearly defined) field of symbolic anthropology. Consciousness and Change opens with an analysis of symbols, discussing some of their essential qualities. The author then proceeds to examine the Durkheimian and Weberian schools of thought, as reflected in the works of anthropologists ranging from Lévi-Strauss to Clifford Geertz; next, he considers the development of Protean symbolism, using material derived from his own field experience in the American South and elsewhere. He concludes with a typology relating different types of symbol to different periods of history, from the primitivism of the Australian aborigine to the quasi-primitivism of the modern commune-dweller. While it is not intended as a comprehensive text-book, Consciousness and Change provides student and lay reader alike with an introductory overview of the anthropology of symbols. James L. Peacock is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, USA. His publications include Rites of Modernization (Chicago, 1968), The Human Direction (New York, 1970) and Indonesia: An Anthropological Perspective (California, 1973). Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780631161202. Keywords : ANTHROPOLOGY.
