Fluid Signs
Subtitle: Being a Person the Tamil Way
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Published: November 1984
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780520047259
Subjects: Semiotics; Anthropology; Multicultural studies; Social issues; Tamil (Indic people); Ethnology And Ethnography
First sentence: On a Sunday morning two weeks after my wife and I had settled in the village of Kalappur, the humdrum pace of village life was startled by the arrival of a chauffeur-driven Mercedes-Benz.