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Cities are full of symbols that bear the meanings that together constitute urban culture. These interdisciplinary case studies, from Yogyakarta to Leiden and from Buenos Aires to New York, employ urban symbolism theory and a focus on such symbols as the city's layout, statues, street names and popular culture. This book examines design proposals that show symbolic handling of the 9/11 attack on New York, the disaster symbolism of the ship washed ashore by the tsunami in Banda Aceh, and the design of the symbol of the city of Cape Town derived from a remnant of Dutch colonial architecture, or the mass pilgrimage to Elvis's Graceland in Memphis. 'Cities Full of Symbols' develops urban symbolic ecology and hypercity approaches into a new perspective on social cohesion. Approaches of architects, anthropologists, sociologists, social geographers and historians converge to make this a book for anyone interested in urban life, policymaking and city branding.--Cover.

Architecture and society. --- City planning -- Social aspects. --- Symbolism in architecture. --- Urban anthropology. --- Urban ecology (Sociology). --- Symbolism in architecture --- Architecture and society --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Urban anthropology --- City planning --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Architecture --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Anthropology, Urban --- Cities and towns --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Architectural symbolism --- Signs and symbols in architecture --- Environmental aspects --- Ethnology --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Human factors --- sociology --- culture studies --- anthropology --- Colombo --- Ghent --- Jakarta --- Yogyakarta

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Ritual language, wild and domestic animals, and objects of material culture like houses, palaces, and works of art, are often loaded with symbolic meaning. ‘Reading the landscape’, or giving meaning to the natural environment, is a cultural act as well, and one must discover what mountains, coastlines, and islands mean to different groups of people. In this book, written on the occasion of Professor Reimar Schefold’s retirement from the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Leiden University, colleagues and former students from the Netherlands and abroad demonstrate the variety and wealth of the field of symbolic anthropology. The regional focus of the book is Indonesia. The studies presented range from small island communities in western, northern, and eastern Indonesia to urban settlements in Java and Sumatra. All the contributions are in one way or another related to Reimar Schefold’s work over the past thirty-five years, work that includes extensive studies on material culture, rituals, and the use of symbols in the expression of ethnicity among the various cultural groups of Indonesia.

Ethnology --- Symbolic anthropology