Culture and Practical Reason - Hardcover

Sahlins, Marshall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226733599 ISBN 13: 9780226733593

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1977

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author:

Marshall Sahlins is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0226733599
• ISBN 13: 9780226733593
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 262