Reading Castaneda (Routledge Revivals): A Prologue to the Social Sciences - Hardcover

Silverman, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415736544 ISBN 13: 9780415736541

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Carlos Castaneda’s accounts of his meeting with the Yaqui Indian magician Don Juan are well known to sociologists both in Britain and in America. Using material largely from Castaneda’s The Teachings of Don Juan, David Silverman here seeks to introduce the student of Sociology to some of the central epistemological concerns of social science. First published in 1975, the title assumes no previous knowledge of Castaneda but instead uses his work as a springboard to wider issues, in particular making sense of our reality and understanding each other by using language and communication. This is an interesting reissue, which will be of particular value to students of the sociology of language and communication, as well as Communication Studies more generally.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0415736544
• ISBN 13: 9780415736541
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128