Myth, Symbol, and Culture

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Myth, Symbol, and Culture
Edited by Clifford Geertz
Exploring the meaning of metaphors, nine scholars have contributed essays to this volume, ranging in subject from a Balinese cockfight through literary criticism to a home-cooked meal. The symbols men have used and continue to use are considered from the viewpoint of anthropology, history, government, and literature.
Clifford Geertz opens the collection with "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight." The cockfight has lately become a symbol of the primitive village's resistance to externally imposed authority while retaining its previous function as a source of analogy to masculine traits and the affairs of men. James W. Fernandez moves from that specific set of metaphors to a more comprehensive set of animal metaphors in "Persuasions and Performances: Of the Beast in Every Body." Mary Douglas, in "Deciphering a Meal," searches for the symbolism invested in the serving of food. Frank E. and Fritzie P. Manuel examine the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Myth, Symbol, and Culture
Edited by Clifford Geertz
Exploring the meaning of metaphors, nine scholars have contributed essays to this volume, ranging in subject from a Balinese cockfight through literary criticism to a home-cooked meal. The symbols men have used and continue to use are considered from the viewpoint of anthropology, history, government, and literature.
Clifford Geertz opens the collection with "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight." The cockfight has lately become a symbol of the primitive village's resistance to externally imposed authority while retaining its previous function as a source of analogy to masculine traits and the affairs of men. James W. Fernandez moves from that specific set of metaphors to a more comprehensive set of animal metaphors in "Persuasions and Performances: Of the Beast in Every Body." Mary Douglas, in "Deciphering a Meal," searches for the symbolism invested in the serving of food. Frank E. and Fritzie P. Manuel examine the psychic of Judeo-Christian civilization by studying it as a paradise cult, isolating and investigating fantasies about another world as they find expression in sacred texts, in commentaries upon them, and in their secular adaptation. In her "Subversive Genealogies," Judith Shklar explores the myth of origins. Reuben A. Brower follows the myth of Neptune through Virgil, Rubens, and Dryden. Steven Marcus analyzes the imagery in Dickens's Pickwick Papers. Winding up the volume is Robert M. Adams's essay on the role symbolism plays in literary interpretation and criticism.
This collection of interdisciplinary studies of meaning will be of particular interest to students of anthropology and literature.
Clifford Geertz is professor of social sciences at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey.
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