Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way
E. Valentine DanielFluid 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.
Year:
2020
Edition:
Reprint 2020
Publisher:
University of California Press
Language:
english
Pages:
589
ISBN 10:
0520342143
ISBN 13:
9780520342149
File:
PDF, 21.43 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2020