The Forest of Symbols
Author: Victor Turner
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801491010
Category: Social Science
Page: 405
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Language: en
Pages: 405
Pages: 405
Collection of 10 articles previously published on various aspects of ritual symbolism among the Ndembu of Zambia; p.83-4; brief mention of C.P. Mountford on Aboriginal colour symbolism; Primarly for use in cultural comparison.
Language: en
Pages: 320
Pages: 320
In this groundbreaking book, Andrei Pop presents a lucid reassessment of those writers and artists in the late nineteenth century whose work merits the adjective “symbolist.” For Pop, this term denotes an art that is self-conscious about its modes of making meaning and he argues that these symbolist practices, which
Language: en
Pages: 383
Pages: 383
The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.
Language: en
Pages: 405
Pages: 405
Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their
