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Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way

Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way

Paperback

Native American HistoryAnthropology

ISBN10: 0520061675
ISBN13: 9780520061675
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Sep 23 1987
Pages: 215
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.42 Depth: 8.48
Language: English
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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