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Title: TWO-DIMENSIONAL MAN
AN ESSAY ON THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF POWER AND SYMBOLISM IN COMPLEX SOCIETY
By: Abner Cohen
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 1138928720
ISBN 13: 9781138928725
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Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Pub. date: 21 July, 2015
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Social and Cultural Anthropology
Pages: 170
Description: Facsimile reprint of edition published in 1974 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.
Synopsis: Central to this original study, first published in 1974, is that Political Man is also Symbolist Man, that man is two-dimensional. The book explores the possibilities of the systematic study of the dialectical interdependence between power relationships and symbolic action in modern, complex society. The discussion focuses on the processes by which interest groups, that cannot organise themselves formally, manipulate different types of symbolic formations to articulate a number of basic organisational functions: distinctiveness, communication, decision-making, authority, ideology and socialisation. The analysis is worked out in terms of specific case studies of different types of groupings, or 'invisible organisations' - ethnic, elitist, religious, ritually secret, cousinhood - which go through processes of cultural metamorphosis, shifting from one symbolic strategy to another, in response to changes in their circumstances. In conclusion, the discussion is brought to bear on the study of stratification in large-scale industrial society generally.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Routledge
Returns: Returnable
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