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"This is a rich and stimulating collection of articles." —Journal of Ritual StudiesThe importance of the figurative imagination in human interaction is the focus of these seminal essays by cultural anthropologist James W. Fernandez.
"This is a rich and stimulating collection of articles." - Journal of Ritual Studies
Innehållsförteckning
IntroductionAcknowledgmentsPart I. Persuasions1. Persuasions and Performances: Of the Beast in Every Body and the Metaphors of Everyman2. The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive CulturePart II. Performances3. Poetry in Motion: Being Moved by Amusement, Mockery, and Mortality in the Asturian Mountains4. Syllogisms of Association: Some Modern Extensions of Asturian Deepsong5. Lexical Fields: And Some Movements About, Within, and Between Them6. Some Reflections on Looking into Mirrors7. Edification by Puzzlement8. Returning to the Whole9. The Dark at the Bottem of the Stairs: The Inchoate in Symbolic Inquire and Some Strategies for Coping with It10. Moving up in the world: Transcendence in Symbolic Anthropology11. Convivial Attitudes: A Northern Spanish Kayak Festival in Its Historical MomentIndex
