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In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 99, Heft 1, S. 215-216
ISSN: 1548-1433
The Aesthetics of Action: Continuity and Change in. West African Town. Kris L. Hardin. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. 314 pp.
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 90, Heft 2, S. 445-446
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 1
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 76, Heft 3, S. 693-697
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 76, Heft 2, S. 453-454
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 74, Heft 6, S. 1569-1570
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 74, Heft 6, S. 1568-1569
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 74, Heft 4, S. 924-927
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 72, Heft 6, S. 1330-1348
ISSN: 1548-1433
The Diola‐Fogny concept of kujaama represents a complex symbol that defines a set of pollution rules having to do mainly with blood and food avoidance between generations and between husband and wife at the death of one or the other. Analysis of the diverse manifestations of kujaama shows that each represents but one variant of a general principle, that is, the inauspiciousness of mixing separate categories. Further analysis places kujaama in the larger context of Fogny moral life and places the rituals associated with kujaama in the "grammar" of ritual acts and gestures.
Through the use of language, as symbolic action, man attempts to control his social, natural, and supernatural environments. In this book J. David Sapir, J. Christopher Crocker, and their fellow contributors investigate the nature of metaphor and related symbolic forms as a means of coming to terms with the world
In: Current anthropology, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 83-97
ISSN: 1537-5382