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The rebel Church in Latin America (The Pelican Latin American library)

Gheerbrant, Alain

Penguin

This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and their fifteen contributors are drawn from a variety of scholarly backgrounds—including anthropology, ethnology, psychotherapy and art history. This diversity of approach is responsible for the book's unique character, a reflection of the multiplicity of symbols and signs and the phenomenal range of possible interpretations they offer. This book draws together folklore, literary and artistic sources, and focuses on the symbolic dimension of every colour, number, sound, gesture, expression or character trait that has benefitted from symbolic interpretation. The conscious and unconscious minds are explored, desire and dreams are treated alongside the known and the chronicled. Extraordinary in its range and eclecticism, this dictionary was originally published in French as the Dictionnaire des Symboles, and it is regarded as the standard work on the subject.

The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols (Dictionary, Penguin)

Literature & Fiction

Chevalier, Jean

History & Criticism

Penguin??Books

A story covering the exploitation of the Amazon basin, from the 19th century rubber barons to today.

The Amazon : Past, Present and Future

History

Americas

THAMES HUDSON LTD

This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and their fifteen contributors are drawn from a variety of scholarly backgrounds - including anthropology, ethnology, psychotherapy and art history. This diversity of approach is responsible for the book's unique character, a reflection of the multiplicity of symbols and signs and the phenomenal range of possible interpretations they offer. This book draws together folklore, literary and artistic sources, and focuses on the symbolic dimension of every colour, number, sound, gesture, expression or character trait that has benefitted from symbolic interpretation. The conscious and unconscious minds are explored, desire and dreams are treated alongside the known and the chronicled. Extraordinary in its range and eclecticism, this dictionary was originally published in French as the Dictionnaire des Symboles, and it is regarded as the standard work on the subject.

A Dictionary of Symbols

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Blackwell Pub.

A chronicle of the "discovery," exploration, and exploitation of the Amazon jungle captures the dramatic history of Amazonia through words and pictures, from the first conquistadors in 1542 to the present. Original.

The Amazon: Past, Present, and Future

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Harry N. Abrams

Dictionnaire des symboles

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

ROBERT LAFFONT

C'est trop peu de dire que nous vivons dans un monde de symboles, un monde de symboles vit en nous. De la psychanalyse à l'anthropologie, de la critique d'art à la publicité et à la propagande idéologique ou politique, sciences, arts et techniques essaient de plus en plus aujourd'hui de décrypter ce langage des symboles, tant pour élargir le champ de la connaissance et approfondir la communication que pour apprivoiser une énergie d'un genre particulier, sous-jacente à nos actes, à nos réflexes, à nos attirances et répulsions, dont nous commençons à peine à deviner la formidable puissance. Des années de réflexions et d'études comparatives sur un corpus d'informations rassemblées par une équipe de chercheurs, à travers des aires culturelles recouvrant la durée de l'histoire et l'étendue du peuplement humain, les auteurs ont tenté de donner à voir le cours profond du langage symbolique, tel qu'il se ramifie dans les strates cachées de notre mémoire. Chacun sentira bien l'importance de ce Dictionnaire. Plus de mille six cents articles, reliés par des comparaisons et des renvois, souvent restructurés à la suite d'une longue maturation, permettent de mieux approcher la nudité du symbole, que la raison dans sa seule mouvance ne parviendrait pas à saisir. Cette somme unique ouvre les portes de l'imaginaire, invite le lecteur à méditer sur les symboles, comme Bachelard invitait à rêver sur les rêves, afin d'y découvrir la saveur et le sens d'une réalité vivante. Guy Schoeller.

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Bâ, Amadou Hampâté

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