Community Memories
Community Memories

Author: Winona L. Fletcher

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2003-11-07

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780916968304

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"While this is a glimpse of Frankfort's African American community, it has much in common with other Black communities, especially those in the South. Although much in the collection that produced this work - both photographic and oral history - is nostalgic, it ultimately demonstrates that change is constant, producing both negative and positive results."--BOOK JACKET.

Rethinking Symbolism
Rethinking Symbolism

Author: Dan Sperber

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1975-09-25

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780521099677

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"The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists. He demonstrates that symbols enter all phases of social life: those which we tend to regard as strictly pragmatic, or based on concerns with material need or advantage, as well as those which we tend to view as purely symbolic, such as ideology, ritual, myth, moral codes, and the like. . . ."—Robert McKinley, Reviews in Anthropology