Culture and Practical Reason by Marshall Sahlins
"The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists. He demonstrates that symbols enter all phases of social life: those which we tend to regard as strictly pragmatic, or based on concerns with material need or advantage, as well as those which we tend to view as purely symbolic, such as ideology, ritual, myth, moral codes, and the like. . . ."--Robert McKinley, Reviews in Anthropology
Charles F. Sahlins is the Charles F. Sahlins is the Charles F. Sahlins is Grey is a University of Chicago Emeritus Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology. Stone Age Economics, Culture and Practical Reason, Islands of History, and How Natives Think: About Captain Cook, for example, are just a few of his writings.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226733616 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226733610 |
| Title | Culture and Practical Reason |
| Author | Marshall Sahlins |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 1978-02-15 |
| Number of pages | 259 |
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