Nigel Barley

Symbolic Structures

An Exploration of the Culture of the Dowayos

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book is a detailed study of the symbolic universe of the Dowayos of north Cameroon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 182g
• ISBN-13: 9780521105347
• ISBN-10: 052110534X
• Artikelnr.: 26010491

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The ethnographic background
2. Symbolism and the punctuation of culture
3. Some problems of the representational model of symbolism
4. The leopard cannot change his spots
5. Water and fertility
6. Tarniisnohgbarklele: 'the place where the old Fulani woman was beaten to death'
7. 'It is only thanks to me that you were circumcised'
8. The seasons of the year and the joker in the pack: relations of nesting and quotation
Appendix: The festivals
Notes
Bibliography
Index.