ISBN:
0203451538
,
0422798002
,
042279810X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 275 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
A.S.A. monographs 24
Parallel Title:
Print version Reason and Morality
DDC:
301/.01
Keywords:
Cultural relativism Congresses
;
Reason Congresses Cross-cultural studies
;
Ethnophilosophy Congresses
Abstract:
The ASA conference on the topic to which this volume is devoted, originallyentitled 'Rationality and Rationales', took place in April, 1984 and was incelebration of the Malinowski Centennial year. Appropriately it was held at theLondon School of Economics where, in 1927, Malinowski was appointed to thefirst chair in Social Anthropology at the University of London. It wasMalinowski's insistence that there is no fact without theory. The contributors tothis volume, in following the lead of Malinowski as supreme ethnographer,reverse his insight to read: there is no decent theory without data. It i
Note:
Includes bibliographies and indexes
,
Papers from an ASA conference held at the London School of Economics in Apr. 1984
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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