Fluid Signs
eBook - ePub

Fluid Signs

Being a Person the Tamil Way

  1. 215 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Fluid Signs

Being a Person the Tamil Way

About this book

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 traditions in general and anthropology in particular to deepen its discourse with South Asian cultural and religious thought.


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 argu

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents 1
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Note on Transliteration
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. PART I Toward Compatibility
  9. 2 An Ur Known
  10. 3 A House Conceived
  11. 4 Sexuality Exposed
  12. 5 Kunams Divined1
  13. PART II Toward Equipoise
  14. 6 A Theoretical Interlude
  15. 7 Equilibrium Regained
  16. 8 A ”Differant” Conclusion
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index