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1 online resource (399 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Originally published: London : Faber, 1973. |
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Book is a complete reprint of the 1973 edition with new covers and title page. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-389) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Ruth Finnegan and Robin Horton -- Culture, memory and narrative / Benjamin Colby and Michael Cole -- A reversed world: or is it? / Nobuhiro Nagashima -- Literacy versus non-literacy: the great divide? / Ruth Finnegan -- Colour-words and colour values: the evidence from Gusii / W. H. Whiteley -- Savage and the modern mind / Ernest Gellner -- Comparison of belief-systems: anomaly versus falsehood / Barry Barnes -- Form and meaning of magical acts: a point of view / S. J. Tambiah -- On the social determination of truth / Steven Lukes -- Lévy- Bruhl, Durkheim and the Scientific Revolution / Robin Horton -- Frobenius, Senghor and the image of Africa / J. M. Ita -- Religion and secularism: the contemporary significance of Newman's thought / Hilary Jenkins -- Basic differences of thought / Sybil Wolfram. |
| Summary |
Is there a basic difference in thinking between Western and non-Western societies? This long-debated yet highly topical problem forms the central question to which distinguished contributors in the fields of psychology, linguistics, history, and sociology and, more particularly, of social anthropology and philosophy, address themselves in this interdisciplinary collecƯtion. They are: Barry Barnes, Benjamin N. Colby and Michael Cole, Ruth Finnegan, Ernest Gellner, Robin Horton, J.M. Ita, Hilary Jenkins, Steven Lukes, Nobuhiro Nagashima, S.J. Tambiah, W.H. Whiteley, and Sybil Wolfram. The central ideas of this classic work are reformulated and refined in the various contributions with different possible dichotomies discussed such as: 'traditional/modern', 'industrial/nonƯ industrial', or 'scientific/non-scientific', and 'thinking, ' analyzed in terms of its thought processes, content, logic or social background. The material in the book, which is dedicated to Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard, falls within the general area of the comparative sociology of knowledge, and will thus particularly interest philosophers, social anthropologists, and sociologists. The volume is however conceived in an interdisciplinary spirit and will be of interest to anyone seriously concerned to examine the nature of thinking in our own and other societies. -- Publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Sociology of.
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Knowledge, Sociology of. |
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Philosophy, Comparative.
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Philosophy, Comparative. |
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Thought and thinking.
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sociology of knowledge. |
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Thought and thinking. |
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thinking. |
| Added Author |
Horton, Robin, editor.
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Finnegan, Ruth H., editor.
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| Other Editions: |
Reproduction of (manifestation): Horton, Robin. Modes of thought. London, Faber 1973 0571095445 (DLC) 73174508 (OCoLC)741532 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Modes of thought in Western and non-Western societies. Eugene, Oregon : Wipf & Stock, [2017] 9781532617614 (OCoLC)1007037447 |
| ISBN |
9781725238466 (electronic book) |
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1725238462 (electronic book) |
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9781532617614 |
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1532617615 |
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