The Social Use of Metaphor: Essays on the Anthropology of Rhetoric

by J. David Sapir (Editor), J. Christopher Crocker (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812277258
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	05/29/1977
Series:	Anniversary Collection
Edition description:	Reprint 2016 ed.
Pages:	249
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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.