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Representing Relationships

By Fiske, Alan Page

Representing Relationships

By Fiske, Alan Page

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The four fundamental forms of sociality structure our relationships. By comparing hundreds of cultures across more than 5,000 years, this book builds on relational models theory to reveal how each of the four basic types of relationship is conceived in their own distinctive cognitive medium. The text demonstrates how people use their food and bodies to foster affiliation, spatial dimensions to form hierarchy, concrete operations of one-to-one matching to create equality, and employ arbitrary, conventional symbols for proportion-based relationships. Originating from the author's ethnographic fieldwork in a West African village, this innovative social theory integrates findings from social, cognitive, and developmental psychology, linguistics and semiotics, anthropology, archeology, art history, religious studies, and ancient texts. The chapters offer compelling insights into readers' everyday social relations by showing what humans think their social relationships actually are.
Product details
Number of Pages:
450
Release Date:
2025-11-30
Publication Date:
2025-11-03
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1108837727
ISBN13:
9781108837729
Weight:
798 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
29 cm
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