Symbols and Meaning: A Concise Introduction - Softcover

Womack, Mari

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0759103224 ISBN 13: 9780759103221

Verlag: Altamira Press, 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.

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A professional writer and anthropologist, the late Mari Womack lived in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0759103224
• ISBN 13: 9780759103221
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Deutschland