Raymond Firth

Symbols (Routledge Revivals)

Public and Private

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book first published in 1973 offers a broad survey of the study of symbolic ideas and behaviour.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 870g
• ISBN-13: 9780415694674
• ISBN-10: 0415694671
• Artikelnr.: 41362048

Autorenporträt

Raymond Firth

Inhaltsangabe

I 1. An Anthropologist's Reflections on Symbolic Usage 2. A Question of
Terms: Scope and Meaning of 'Symbol' 3. Development of Anthropological
Interest in Symbols 4. Crystallization of Problems of Symbol Theory 5.
Modern Anthropoligical Views of Symbolic Processes 6. Private Symbols and
Public Reactions II 7 . Food Symbolism in a Pre-Industrial Society 8. Hair
as Private Asset and Public Symbol 9. Bodily Symbols of Greeting and
Parting 10. Symbolism of Flags 11. Symbolism in Giving and Getting 12.
Symbol and Substance