Symbols: Public and PrivateAllen & Unwin, 1973 - 469 páginas "This book first published in 1973 offers a broad survey of the study of symbolic ideas and behaviour. ... Professor Firth examines definitions of symbol. He traces the history of scientific inquiry into the symbolism of religious cults, mythology and dreams back into the eighteenth century. He compares some modern approaches to symbolism in art, literature and philosophy with those in social anthropology. He then cites examples in anthropological treatment of symbolic material from cultures of varying sophistication. Finally he offers dispassionate analyses of symbols used in contemporary Western situations - from hair-styles to the use and abuse of national flags; from cults of Black Jesus to the Eucharistic rite. In all this Professor Firth combines social and political topicality with a scholarly and provocative theoretical inquiry."--Preface. |
Contenido
Introduction page | 9 |
An Anthropologists Reflections on Symbolic | 15 |
Scope and Meaning | 54 |
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Abner Cohen action aesthetic analysis Andamanese anthropological anthropologists argued associated Audrey Richards Bachofen basic beards body Catholic century Christ Christian church Claude Lévi-Strauss colour communication complex concept concerned context cult cultural dreams Durkheim elements emotional Eucharist example expression field Firth formal function gesture gift give greeting heart human ideas implications indicated individual interest interpretation involved Jesus kind language London long hair Malinowski Mary Douglas material Mauss meaning modern mystical myth national flag nature Ndembu Nuer Nyakyusa object pattern physical political popora primitive private symbolism problem Raymond Firth reality reciprocity reference regarded relation religion religious symbols representation represented rite ritual sacred sense sexual significance social anthropology society specific spirit statement status structure study of symbols symbolic behaviour symbolic forms symbolist tended Terence Turner term symbol theory thought Tikopia tion Turner Victor Turner Western York