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  • Chapter 1 - Meaning to Relate

  • from Part I - Modes of Minding Social Action: Bodily Indices of Unity, Dimensional Icons of Rank, Concrete Matching Operations of Equality, Arbitrary Symbols of Proportions
  • Alan Page Fiske, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Book:
    Representing Relationships
    Published online:
    21 November 2025
    Print publication:
    11 December 2025, pp 3-37
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    There four fundamental relational models: communal sharing, authority ranking, equality matching, and market pricing. Each of them utilizes a distinct conformation system to represent, communicate, coordinate, motivate, and evaluate social relationships of that kind. The conformation systems are indexical equivalence of bodies, iconic dimensions of rank, concrete operations of one-to-one matching, and purely conventional symbolism of proportions. The chapter also introduces complementarity theory, which posits innate structures that can function only in conjunction with cultural complements. It concludes by saying that the book is intended to be an antitheses to symbolic anthropology.