Reason and Morality

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-40385-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

Reihe: ASA Monographs

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Overing, Joanna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1, Joanna Overing; Chapter 2 Degrees of intelligibility, Raymond Firth; Chapter 3 Social anthropology and the decline of Modernism, Edwin Ardener; Chapter 4 Facts and theories: saying and believing, Sybil Wolfram; Chapter 5 Is it rational to reject relativism?, Paul Hirst; Chapter 6 Anthropos through the looking-glass: or how to teach the Balinese to bark, Mark Hobart; Chapter 7 Reason, emotion, and the embodiment of power, David Parkin; Chapter 8, Joanna Overing; Chapter 9 Fire, meat, and children: the Berti myth, male dominance, and female power, Ladislav Holy; Chapter 10, Jonathan Parry; Chapter 11 ‘The Law is a ass’: an anthropological appraisal, Michael Saltman; Chapter 12 Maori epistemologies, Anne Salmond;

Über Autor(innen)

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