The Social Use of Metaphor by Sapir, J. David

The Social Use of Metaphor (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780812277258)

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The Social Use of Metaphor by Sapir, J. David

The Social Use of Metaphor

$95.00
The Social Use of Metaphor by Sapir, J. David

The Social Use of Metaphor

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: J. David Sapir
ISBN-10: 0812277252
ISBN-13: 9780812277258
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
Language: English
Published: 05/29/1977
Pages: 249
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
By J. David Sapir
By J. David Sapir
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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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