Edmund Ronald Leach

Culture and Communication

The Logic by Which Symbols Are Connected. an Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Social Anthropology
Herausgeber: Goody, Jack; Hawthorn, Geoffrey

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Edmund Leach's book investigates the writings of 'structuralists' and their theories in anthropology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 181g
• ISBN-13: 9780521290524
• ISBN-10: 052129052X
• Artikelnr.: 21689658

Inhaltsangabe

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.