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Culture and Practical Reason

Culture and Practical Reason

Marshall Sahlins
4/5 ( ratings)
"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
Language
English
Pages
259
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Release
February 15, 1978
ISBN
0226733610
ISBN 13
9780226733616

Culture and Practical Reason

Marshall Sahlins
4/5 ( ratings)
"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
Language
English
Pages
259
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Release
February 15, 1978
ISBN
0226733610
ISBN 13
9780226733616

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