 | Marshall Sahlins - Social Science - 1976 - 266 pages
...dominant site of symbolic production, which supplies the major idiom of other relations and activities. One can thus speak of a privileged institutional locus...emanates a classificatory grid imposed upon the total culture. And speaking still at this high level of abstraction, the peculiarity of Western culture is... | |
 | David D. Laitin - History - 1986 - 266 pages
...different ancestral cities — clearly informed practical life. In Marshall Sahlins's terms, there was "a privileged institutional locus of the symbolic...emanates a classificatory grid imposed upon the total culture.'"' To understand how one arena of symbolic production gets its privileged position, I began... | |
 | Brian J. McVeigh - Political Science - 1998 - 292 pages
...dominant site of symbolic production, which supplies the major idiom of other relations and activities. One can thus speak of a privileged institutional locus...emanates a classificatory grid imposed upon the total culture. (Sahlins 1976: 211) Therefore, the modes of production and the sociopolitical structures that... | |
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In other words, the cultural scheme is variously inflected by a dominant site of symbolic production, which supplies the major idiom of other relations and activities. One can thus speak of a privileged institutional locus of the symbolic process, whence... 