The Social Use of Metaphor _ Essay on the Anthropology of Rhetoric

Sapir, J. David; Crocker, J. Christopher (eds)

ISBN 10: 0812277252 / ISBN 13: 9780812277258

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1977

About this Item

green cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 249 pp, dj rubbed, torn at top edges and bottom of spine, sunned at spine, bottom edges of cover lightly frayed, as is top end of spine, corners lightly scuffed, top edge soiled.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Social Use of Metaphor _ Essay on the Anthropology of Rhetoric
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812277252
• ISBN 13: 9780812277258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Cloth/dust jacket Octavo.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthropology

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.