Idology in Transcultural Perspective: Anthropological Investigations of Popular Idolatry

by Patrick W. Galbraith

This edited volume expands on what Aoyagi Hiroshi intended in the first decade of the new millennium to establish as a subfield of symbolic anthropology called "idology." It brings together case studies of popular idolatry in Japan, but goes further to provide a transcultural perspective to guide anthropological investigations in different places and times. In proposing an integrated paradigm for the growing body of literature on idols, the volume...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030826767
• ISBN13: 9783030826765
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"