Culture and Communication / The Logic by which Symbols are Connected

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Leach Edmund

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TextPublication details: Cambridge University Press, 1993Description: 118ISBN:

52129052

Summary: This book provides the prolegomena necessary to understand the final chapter of Levi-Strauss's massive four-volume Mythologies. Introduction, Empiricists and Rationalists: Economic Transactions and Acts of Communication, Problems of Terminology, Objects and Sense-Images and Concepts, Signal and Indices, Transformations, Theories of Magic and Sorcery, The Symbolic Ordering of a Man-Made World: Boundaries of Social Space and Time, The Material Representation of Abstract Ideas: Ritual Condensation, Orchestral Performance as a Metaphor for Ritual Sequence, The Physiological Basis of Sign/ Symbol Sets, Mapping: Time and Space as Reciprocal Representations, Rank Order and Orientation, Examples of Binary Coding, Mating Prescriptions and Proscriptions, Logic and Mytho-Logic, Basic Cosmology, Rites of Transition, The Logic of Sacrifice, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index.

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This book provides the prolegomena necessary to understand the final chapter of Levi-Strauss's massive four-volume Mythologies. Introduction, Empiricists and Rationalists: Economic Transactions and Acts of Communication, Problems of Terminology, Objects and Sense-Images and Concepts, Signal and Indices, Transformations, Theories of Magic and Sorcery, The Symbolic Ordering of a Man-Made World: Boundaries of Social Space and Time, The Material Representation of Abstract Ideas: Ritual Condensation, Orchestral Performance as a Metaphor for Ritual Sequence, The Physiological Basis of Sign/ Symbol Sets, Mapping: Time and Space as Reciprocal Representations, Rank Order and Orientation, Examples of Binary Coding, Mating Prescriptions and Proscriptions, Logic and Mytho-Logic, Basic Cosmology, Rites of Transition, The Logic of Sacrifice, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index.

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Culture and Communication / The Logic by which Symbols are Connected