Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way

by E. Valentine Daniel

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520061675
• ISBN13: 9780520061675
• Release Date: September 1987
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.5"