À partir des principes du symbolisme et des rapports qui sont nécessaires entre les mots et les choses dans tout langage, cet essai montre dans chaque cas comment la philosophie et les solutions traditionnelles naissent de l'ignorance des principes du symbolisme et du mauvais us…
Anthropologists, in studying other cultures, are often tempted to offer their own explanations of strange customs when they feel that the people involved have not given a good enough reason for these customs. The question how the anthropologist can justify interpretations of cus…
"In the eighteenth century sugar planters, merchants, aristocrats, politicians, and governments erected hundreds of commemorative monuments throughout the British Empire as expressions of social status, personal dynasties, territorial occupation, and imperial ambitions. In a cul…