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Author: Juan Eduardo Cirlot Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486425238 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 532
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A valuable reference, this informative and entertaining volume presents a key to elucidating the symbolic worlds encountered in both the arts and the history of ideas. Alphabetical entries clarify essential meanings of each symbol, as drawn from religion, astrology, alchemy, numerology, other sources. 32 black-and-white illustrations.
Author: Juan Eduardo Cirlot Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486425238 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 532
Book Description
A valuable reference, this informative and entertaining volume presents a key to elucidating the symbolic worlds encountered in both the arts and the history of ideas. Alphabetical entries clarify essential meanings of each symbol, as drawn from religion, astrology, alchemy, numerology, other sources. 32 black-and-white illustrations.
Author: Jackson Steward Lincoln Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486427065 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 388
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This analysis opens with a historical review of dream interpretation, exploring the structure, theory, and function of dreams in primitive cultures and examining their predominant symbols, types, and forms. Focusing on Native American dreams, the study defines their significance to the individual and their relationship to the culture pattern.
Author: Raymond Firth Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0415694663 Category : Signs and symbols Languages : en Pages : 468
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This book first published in 1973 offers a broad survey of the study of symbolic ideas and behaviour. The study of symbolism is popular nowadays and anthropologists have made substantial contributions to it. Raymond Firth has long been internationally known for his field research in the Solomons and Malaysia, and for his theoretical work on kinship, economics and religion. Here from a new angle, he has produced a broad survey of the study of symbolic ideas and behaviour. Professor Firth examines definitions of symbol. He traces the history of scientific inquiry into the symbolism of religious cults, mythology and dreams back into the eighteenth century. He compares some modern approaches to symbolism in art, literature and philosophy with those in social anthropology. He then cites examples in anthropological treatment of symbolic material from cultures of varying sophistication. Finally he offers dispassionate analyses of symbols used in contemporary Western situations - from hair-styles to the use and abuse of national flags; from cults of Black Jesus to the Eucharistic rite. In all this Professor Firth combines social and political topicality with a scholarly and provocative theoretical inquiry.
Author: J. C. Cooper Publisher: Thames & Hudson ISBN: 0500770913 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 505
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In nearly 1500 entries, many of them strikingly and often surprisingly illustrated, J. C. Cooper has documented the history and evolution of symbols from prehistory to our own day. With over 200 illustrations and lively, informative and often ironic texts, she discusses and explains an enormous variety of symbols extending from the Arctic to Dahomey, from the Iroquois to Oceana, and coming from systems as diverse as Tao, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Tantra, the cult of Cybele and the Great Goddess, the Pre-Columbian religions of the Western Hemisphere and the Voodoo cults of Brazil and West Africa.
Author: Silas H. Shepherd Research Lodge #1843 Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1365960269 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 245
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Pharos VI: Symbolism - the 6th in a series from the Wisconsin Masonic Research Lodge: Silas H. Shepherd #1843 featuring Zachary J. Schmidt, Silas H. Shepherd, Earl W. Lintner, James D. Fleming, David P. Hullinger, William Wolfe, Richard Marcus, Carl J. Wussow, John Diesam, John F. Wackman III, Francis X. McKenna, Khristian E. Kay, Eugene Marcus, Charles L. Roblee, and Dan Bast.
Author: Scott Davidson Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1498587151 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 247
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The Symbolism of Evil is the final book in Ricoeur’s early trilogy on the will. While Freedom and Nature sets aside normative questions altogether and Fallible Man examines the question of what makes the bad will possible, here Ricoeur takes up the question of evil in its actuality. What is the nature of the will that has succumbed to evil? The question of evil resists reflection and remains inscrutable, leading Ricoeur to proceed indirectly through a study of the abundant resources contained in symbols and myths. Symbols, as Ricoeur famously says, “give rise to thought” and thereby open up a field of meanings which help to inform a philosophical reflection on evil. This hermeneutics of symbols signals an important shift in Ricoeur’s philosophical trajectory, which increasingly turns to language and the various forms of discourse which harbor multiple meanings. The contributors to this volume, edited by Scott Davidson, highlight a wide range of important themes in Ricoeur’s treatment of the symbolics of evil that resonate with current topics in contemporary philosophy and religion.
Author: Pasquale Gagliardi Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351487299 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 391
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A selection of 18 papers from an international conference in Milan, June 1987, organized by the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism. Details how corporate artifacts are invested with meaning, are related to control, and can be used as cultural indicators in research. Among the topics are office design, housing modifications, computer systems, and the space shuttle. Fairly devoid of specialist jargon.
Author: J. C. Cirlot Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134958897 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 340
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The unvarying essential meanings of around 1,000 symbols and symbolic themes commonly found in the art, literature and thought of all cultures through the ages are clarified.
Author: Juan Eduardo Cirlot
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