Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 The ethnographic background
- 2 Symbolism and the punctuation of culture
- 3 Some problems of the representational model of symbolism
- 4 The leopard cannot change his spots
- 5 Water and fertility
- 6 Tarniisnohgbarklele: ‘the place where the old Fulani woman was beaten to death’
- 7 ‘It is only thanks to me that you were circumcised’
- 8 The seasons of the year and the joker in the pack: relations of nesting and quotation
- Appendix: The festivals
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 The ethnographic background
- 2 Symbolism and the punctuation of culture
- 3 Some problems of the representational model of symbolism
- 4 The leopard cannot change his spots
- 5 Water and fertility
- 6 Tarniisnohgbarklele: ‘the place where the old Fulani woman was beaten to death’
- 7 ‘It is only thanks to me that you were circumcised’
- 8 The seasons of the year and the joker in the pack: relations of nesting and quotation
- Appendix: The festivals
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Symbolic StructuresAn Exploration of the Culture of the Dowayos, pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1983