Culture and Practical Reason (Paperback, New edition)

"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"

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 1978
First published:	February 1978
Authors:	Marshall Sahlins
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	259
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-73361-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General
LSN:	0-226-73361-0
Barcode:	9780226733616

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