caa a22 4500 386313032 CHVBK 20180307111555.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0010417500015462 doi S0010417500015462 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0010417500015462 On the Substantiality of Form: Interpreting Symbolic Expression in the Paradigm of Social Organization [Elektronische Daten] The publication of Sir James Frazer's Totemism and Exogamy raised as many problems for anthropologists as it tried to solve: namely, why do symbols that stand for any social group become imbued with religious, ritual, social, and mystical significance, and how do these totemic conceptual systems relate to systems of action? More often than not, symbols of group unity—whatever the group—possess more than one dimension, and these dimensions are often hard to differentiate analytically and ethnographically. In the mainstream of anthropology symbols and their use have been deemed to reflect patterns of social organization. Within this paradigm the majority of authors treat the choice of symbol as either essentially arbitrary or deterministically compelled. We find that the old paradigm of symbol as a reflection of something essentially social—cultural inversion, as some authors would have it, or vaguely and vulgarly determined as others put it—is rather suspect. Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1988 Korovkin Michael University of Tuscia at Viterbo Lanoue Guy University of Lecce Comparative Studies in Society and History Cambridge University Press 30/4(1988-10), 613-648 0010-4175 30:4<613 1988 30 CSS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500015462 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500015462 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Korovkin Michael University of Tuscia at Viterbo NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lanoue Guy University of Lecce NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Comparative Studies in Society and History Cambridge University Press 30/4(1988-10), 613-648 0010-4175 30:4<613 1988 30 CSS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 209869879 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge