Originally published as winter 1972 issue of Daedalus

Exploring the meaning of metaphors, nine scholars have contributed essays to this volume, ranging in subject from a Balinese cockfight through literary criticism to a home-cooked meal. The symbols men have used and continue to use are considered from the viewpoint of anthropology, history, government, and literature. This collection of interdisciplinary studies of meaning will be of particular interest to students of anthropology and literature.

Contents:

Deep play: notes on the Balinese cockfight / Clifford Geertz --Persuasions and performances: of the best in every body ... and the metaphors of everyman /James W. Fernandez --Deciphering a meal / Mary Douglas --Sketch for a natural history of paradise / Frank E. Manuel, Fritzie P. Manuel --Subversive genealogies / Judith N. Shklar --Visual and verbal translation of myth: Neptune in Virgil, Rubens, Dryden / Reuben A. Brower --Language into structure: Pickwick revisited / Steven Marcus --