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E Valentine Daniel

    Fluid Signs
    Annual review of anthropology
    • Fluid Signs

      Being a Person the Tamil Way

      • 336 Seiten
      • 12 Lesestunden

      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.

      Fluid Signs1987