Culture and Practical Reason
Culture and Practical Reason
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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
Sahlins, Marshall: - Marshall Sahlins is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of Chicago. His books include Stone Age Economics, Culture and Practical Reason, Islands of History, and How Natives Think: About Captain Cook, For Example.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226733616 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226733610 |
| Title | Culture and Practical Reason |
| Author | Marshall Sahlins |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 1978-02-15 |
| Number of pages | 259 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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