Fluid signs: being a person the Tamil way

By:

Daniel, E. Valentine

Publication details: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.Description: xiv, 320p.: ill.; pbk.: 22cmISBN:

9780520061675

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.089948 DAN

Summary: 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. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520061675/fluid-signs

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Includes Bibliography and Index

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.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520061675/fluid-signs

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