Search results for " Simbolismo mitico-rituale"

Antropologie del fuoco. Dalle teorie armchair alle verifiche sul campo

2012

Abstract. Inglese e Italiano Cross-cultural recurrence of fire symbolism with its apparent ambiguity, its multifarious patterns related to both myth and ritual, its evident relationship with other symbolic complexes (astral, axial, etc.) has been investigated by anthropologists, cultural and religious historians and psychoanalysts, producing a vast literature. In this essay we trace the essential outlines of these studies and try to provide the reasons of the affirmation and persistence of this symbol based firstly on experience. We further suggest to approach the study of symbols (in its various manifestations) as constitutive elements of complex semantic systems subject to a continuous pr…