Symbols and Meaning: A Concise Introduction - Hardcover

Womack, Mari

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0759103216 ISBN 13: 9780759103214

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Womack offers a concise and easy-to-read overview of the power and meaning of symbols in all human societies. She describes how symbols_images, words, or behaviors with multi-layered meanings_are mechanism of communication. She demonstrates how we experience the power of symbols in all aspects of human life: birth, death, love, sexual desire, and the need for food and shelter. Womack investigates the use of symbols in the language of religion, healing, politics, social organization and control, popular culture, psychology, philosophy, semiotics, magic and expressive culture, including art, aesthetics, literature, theater, sports, and music. The author's eclectic, anthropological approach incorporates the social, conceptual and psychological dynamics of symbols. Her new book is an essential introductory textbook for courses that define fundamental concepts in religion, cultural anthropology, communication, and art.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

By Mari Womack

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0759103216
• ISBN 13: 9780759103214
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: GPSR Kontakt; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Deutschland