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The Social Use of Metaphor
Essays on the Anthropology of Rhetoric
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J. David Sapir
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English
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2016
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Through the use of language, as symbolic action, man attempts to control his social, natural, and supernatural environments. In this book J. David Sapir, J. Christopher Crocker, and their fellow contributors investigate the nature of metaphor and related symbolic forms as a means of coming to terms with the world.
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J. David Sapir, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, the author of numerous articles on African languages and symbolism, spent three and a half years in Senegal doing field work on the language, folklore, and religious symbolism of the Kujamaat Diola of the lower Casamance. J. Christopher Crocker was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Virginia.
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Contents
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Preface
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Chapter 1. The Anatomy of Metaphor
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Chapter 2. The Social Functions of Rhetorical Forms
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Introduction
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Chapter 3. Saying Haya Sayings: Two Categories of Proverb Use
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Chapter 4. The Performance of Ritual Metaphors
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Chapter 5. Carrying the Village: Cuna Political Metaphors
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Chapter 6. My Brother the Parrot
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Chapter 7. The Fabricated Child
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Bibliography
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Contributors
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Index
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December 5, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9781512806632
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Reprint 2016
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249
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
