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Cultural anthropology

symbols central to a culture, divided into summarizing symbols that condense meaning and elaborating symbols that sort experience and guide action.

In cultural anthropology, key symbols refers to symbols central to a culture, divided into summarizing symbols that condense meaning and elaborating symbols that sort experience and guide action. This meaning comes from Ortner (1973) in American Anthropologist.[1]

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  1. Ortner, S. B. (1973). On Key Symbols. American Anthropologist, 75(5), 1338-1346. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1973.75.5.02a00100

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