The Symbol in Ethnography
The Symbol in Ethnography

Summary/Abstract: It is rather that we do not embellish our experiences with symbols but they to a much greater extent cooperate with our experience via processes of affiliation, which we understand only partially. To symbolize means to put together, to compose out of a flowing stream of experiences those particles and elements, which – once they unite – create luminescence, temporary or permanent rays, in which part of the Cosmos, a corner of our dwelling or some dark, subterranean labyrinth lightens up. (...) At any rate, the first syntax of the defined, embodied spirit is that of symbols.

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