ISBN:
0-422-79810-X
,
978-0-422-79810-5
,
0-422-79800-2
,
978-0-422-79800-6
Language:
English
Pages:
277 Seiten
,
Tabellen
Series Statement:
ASA Monographs 24
Series Statement:
Social Science Paperbacks 24
DDC:
301.01
Keywords:
Anthropologie, soziale Ethnophilosophie
;
Ethnohistorie
;
Ethik
;
Rationalismus
;
Kulturvergleich
;
Tagungsbericht
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
Description / Table of Contents:
List of contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction / Joanna Overing -- 2. Degrees of intelligibility / Raymond Firth -- 3. Social anthropology and the decline of modernism / Edwin Ardener -- 4. Facts and theories: saying and believing / Sybil Wolfram -- 5. Is it rational to reject relativism? / Paul Hirst -- 6. Anthropos through the looking-glass: or how to teach the Balinese to bark / Mark Hobart -- 7. Reason, emotion, and the embodiment of power / David Parkin -- 8. Today I shall call him 'mummy': multiple worlds and classificatory confusion / Joanna Overing -- 9. Fire, meat, and children: the Berti myth, male dominance, and female power / Ladislav Holy -- 10. The Brahmanical tradition and the technology of the intellect / Jonathan Parry -- 11. "The law is a ass": an anthropological appraisal / Michael Saltman -- 12. Maori epistemologies / Anne Salmond -- Name index -- Subject index
Note:
"The ASA conference on the topic to which this volume is devoted, originally entitled '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 [...]" (Preface)Enthält eine Einführung und 11 Beiträge
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