A01=Daniel Valentine
anthropological field work
anthropologists
asia scholars
asian studies
Author_Daniel Valentine
Category=JBSL
Category=JHM
cultural history
cultural significance
cultural studies
demographic studies
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ethnographers
ethnography
hindu village
hinduism
nonfiction study
religion and culture
religious thought
signs and symbols
social history
social science
south asia
southern india
symbolic anthropologists
tamil
tamil language
theoretical analysis
western intellectual tradition
Product details
- ISBN 9780520061675
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 23 Sep 1987
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
E. Valentine Daniel is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and coeditor of Culture/Contexture (California, 1995).
