Fluid signs : being a person the Tamil way / E. Valentine Daniel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daniel, E. Valentine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tamil (Indic people).

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (589 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1984]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

1. Introduction

PART I. Toward Compatibility

2. An Ur Known

3. A House Conceived

4. Sexuality Exposed

5. Kunams Divined

PART II. Toward Equipoise

6. A Theoretical Interlude

7. Equilibrium Regained

8. A "Différant" Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520342149

0520342143

OCLC:

1224278350