ISBN:
0-521-31851-3
,
978-0-521-31851-8
,
0-521-26748-X
,
978-0-521-26748-9
ISSN:
0068-6794
Language:
English
Pages:
110 Seiten
Edition:
First published in English, with revisions
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 54
Uniform Title:
Le _savoir des anthropologues
Keywords:
Anthropologie Theorie, ethnologische
;
Anthropologie, soziale
;
Ethnologie
;
Lévi-Strauss, Claude [Leben und Werk]
Abstract:
What can be understood of other cultures? And what can we learn about people in general from the study of other cultures? In the three closely related essays that constitute this book and which have already created considerable controversy in their original French versions, and been rewritten and expanded for this edition, Dan Sperber discusses these fundamental issues of anthropology. In the first essay he analyses the way in which anthropology is written and read. In the second, he offers a novel rationalist alternative to cultural relativism, based on both anthropological and psychological arguments, and illustrated by his own fieldwork in Ethiopia. The third essay provides an assessment of the work of Levi-Strauss, in which the arguments of the previous two essays are linked with an incisive critique of Levi-Strauss' contribution to the study of cultural variation.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Interpretive ethnography and theoretical anthropology -- Apparently irrational beliefs -- Claude Lévi-Strauss today.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 99-104
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