Fluid Signs
Being a Person the Tamil Way
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2020
589 pages
978-0-520-34214-9 (ISBN)
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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.
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09/1987
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University of California Press
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E. Valentine Daniel is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and coeditor of Culture/Contexture (California, 1995).
Content
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
1. Introduction
PART I. TOWARD COMPATIBILITY
2. An Or Known
3. A House Conceived
4. Sexuality Exposed
5. Km;tams Divined
PART II. TOWARD EQUIPOISE
6. A Theoretical Interlude
7. Equilibrium Regained
8. A "Differant" Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Note on Transliteration
1. Introduction
PART I. TOWARD COMPATIBILITY
2. An Or Known
3. A House Conceived
4. Sexuality Exposed
5. Km;tams Divined
PART II. TOWARD EQUIPOISE
6. A Theoretical Interlude
7. Equilibrium Regained
8. A "Differant" Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
