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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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Fluid Signs, E Valentine Daniel
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- Title
- Fluid Signs
- Subtitle
- Being a Person the Tamil Way
- Language
- English
- Authors
- E Valentine Daniel
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Released
- 1987
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN10
- 0520061675
- ISBN13
- 9780520061675
- Series
- Tags
- Social Sciences, Sociology, Culture and Society, Ethnography, Anthropology, Cultural History, Hinduism, Social History, Ethnicity, South Asia, Anthropologists
- Description
- 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.