Culture and Practical Reason

A very nice, mostly clean & straight copy. 252 pp.

From Publisher:

"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

Product Info

ISBN: 0226733610

ISBN-13: 9780226733616

Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press

Year: 1978

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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