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Rethinking symbolism
- Title
- Rethinking symbolism / Dan Sperber ; translated [from the French] by Alice L. Morton.
- Author
- Sperber, Dan
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1975.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Morton, Alice L.
- Description
- xiii, 153 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Sperber gives a cognitive account of symbolism by which symbols represent knowledge, but knowledge which is distinct from 'encyclopaedic' knowledge. Symbolic knowledge is knowledge not of things or of words, but of the memory of things and words, of conceptual representations. It depends on processes of displacement of attention, and of evocation; it is an improvisation which rests upon implicit knowledge and obeys unconsciuos rules."--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in social anthropology, 0068-6794 ; [11]
- Uniform Title
- Symbolisme en général. English
- Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; no. 11.
- Alternative Title
- Symbolisme en général.
- Subject
- Note
- Translation of Le symbolisme en général.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 151-153.
- Contents
- Symbolism and language -- Hidden meanings -- Absent meaning -- Symbolism and knowledge -- The symbolic mechanism.
- ISBN
- 0521208343
- 9780521208345
- 0521099676
- 9780521099677
- 2705657878
- 9782705657871
- LCCN
- 76361918
- OCLC
- ocm01853071
- 1853071
- SCSB-258272
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library