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Tradition as Truth and Communication - A Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse (Hardcover): Pascal Boyer

Tradition as Truth and Communication - A Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse (Hardcover)

Pascal Boyer

Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

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Tradition is a central concept in the social sciences, but it is commonly treated as unproblematic. Dr. Boyer insists that social anthropology requires a theory of tradition, its constitution and transmission. He treats tradition "as a type of interaction which results in the repetition of certain communicative events," and therefore as a form of social action. Tradition as Truth and Communication deals particularly with oral communication and focuses on the privileged role of licensed speakers and the ritual contexts in which certain aspects of tradition are characteristically transmitted. Drawing on cognitive psychology, Dr. Boyer proposes a set of general hypotheses to be tested by ethnographic field research. He has opened up an important new field for investigation within social anthropology.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Release date: March 1990
First published: 1990
Authors: Pascal Boyer
Dimensions: 232 x 155 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-37417-0
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
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LSN: 0-521-37417-0
Barcode: 9780521374170

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