| Description |
xx, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Chicago originals |
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Chicago originals.
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| Contents |
Remarks on the verb "to believe" / Jean Pouillon -- Superstition and popular religion in Western societies / Nicole Belmont -- Sacrifice: symbolic or effective? / Olivier Herrenschmidt -- Rethinking mythology / Marcel Detienne -- The eagle in the key of water / Georges Charachidzé -- The apotheosis of Captain Cook / Marshall Sahlins -- Aspects of the organization of rites / Pierre Smith -- On incest and death: a myth of the Tatuyo Indians of Northwest Amazonia / Patrice Bidou -- The symbolics of incest and its prohibition / Françoise Héritier -- The ritual doubling of the person of the king / Alfred Adler -- Time of birth, time of being: The couvade / Patrick Menget -- From the village to the bush: a essay on the Gourmantché of Gobnangou (Upper Volta) / Michael Cartry -- Transgression, transversality. wandering / Michel Izard -- Appendix Is symbolic thought prerational? / Dan Sperber |
| Notes |
Translation of: La Fonction symbolique |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Religion.
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Rites and ceremonies.
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Structural anthropology.
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Symbolism.
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| Author |
Izard, Michel.
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Smith, Pierre.
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| LC no. |
81016377 |
| ISBN |
0226388611 |
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