Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: ix, 275 pages. Contents: 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. Subjects: Conference. Reason and morality (1984: London School of Economics. Reason and morality.Cultural relativism; Congresses. Ethnophilosophy; Congresses. Reason Cross-cultural studies; Congresses. Discrimination In human reasoning. Inference In psychology. Genre:Bibliography. 1 Kg.

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Title: Reason and morality / edited by Joanna Overing
Publisher: London ; New York : Tavistock Publications
Publication Date: 1985
Language: English
ISBN 10: 042279810X
ISBN 13: 9780422798105
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st edition.
Weight: 1 kilogram

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First Published in 1985. What is the place of reason and conversely of the unreasonable, the contradictory, the emotional and the chaotic in social life? What is the nature of general human rationality? Are there such things as incommensurable world views? How efficacious are typologies or 'modes of thought' or cognitive styles? These are some of the controversies addressed by the contributors to this volume which draws together papers from the 1984 Malinowski Centennial Conference of the ASA.

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Joanna Overing is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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