Reason and morality / edited by Joanna Overing.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth
Other Authors: Overing, Joanna
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Tavistock Publications, 1985.
Series:A.S.A. monographs ; 24.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Joanna Overing
  • Degrees of intelligibility / Raymond Firth
  • Social anthropology and the decline of Modernism / Edwin Ardener
  • Facts and theories: saying and believing / Sybil Wolfram
  • Is it rational to reject relativism? / Paul Hirst
  • Athropos through the looking-glass: or how to teach the Balinese to bark / Mark Hobart
  • Reason, emotion, and the embodiment of power / David Parkin
  • Today I shall call him 'Mummy': multiple worlds and classificatory confusion / Joanna Overing
  • Fire, meat, and children: the Berti myth, male dominance, and female power / Ladislav Holy
  • The Brahmanical tradition and the technology of the intellect / Jonathan Parry
  • 'The Law is an ass': an anthropological appraisal / Michael Saltman
  • Maori epistemologies / Anne Salmond.