Reason and morality / edited by Joanna Overing

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.…