Symbolic Structures: An Exploration of the Culture of the Dowayos

by Nigel Barley

Many opposing theories have been elaborated by different anthropologists in an attempt to explain the nature of symbolism. In this work Nigel Barley uses a particular ethnographic case to examine the relevance and limitations of these existing theories and to develop a new alternative approach which draws on areas of linguistics and folkloristics at one time neglected by symbolic theorists. The book is a detailed study of the symbolic universe of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052110534X
• ISBN13: 9780521105347
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"