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Representing Relationships

by Alan Page Fiske
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781108837729
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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  • Pages: 450
  • Original Price: USD 155.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 767 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Social Psychology

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.

Fiske, Alan Page: - Alan Page Fiske is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and known for creating the relational models theory. His notable publications include Structures of Social Life (1991), Virtuous Violence (2014, with Tage Shakti Rai), and Kama Muta: Discovering the Connecting Emotion (2020).

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