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Rationality

Title
Rationality, edited by Bryan R. Wilson.
Author
Wilson, Bryan R.
Publication
Evanston [Ill.] Harper & Row [1970]

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Book/textUse in library JFD 71-3523Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Description
xviii, 275 p. illus.; 21 cm.
Series Statement
Key concepts in the social sciences.
Subject
  • Intercultural communication
  • Ethnology > Methodology
Note
  • A Torchbook library edition.
  • CONTENTS. - A sociologist's introduction, by B. R. Wilson. - The idea of a social science, by P. Winch. - Concepts and society, by E. Gellner. - Explaining cargo cults, by I. C. Jarvie. - Is understanding religion compatible with believing? by A. MacIntyre. - Understanding a primitive society, by P. Winch. - The idea of a social science, by A. MacIntyre. - African traditional thought and Western science, by R. Horton. - The problem of the rationality of magic, by I. C. Jarvie and J. Agassi. - Some problems about rationality, by S. Lukes. - The limits of irrationality, by M. Hollis. - Reason and ritual, by M. Hollis. - On understanding ritual, by J. H. M. Beattie. - Bibliography (p. [269]-271)
Call Number
JFD 71-3523
LCCN
74117506
OCLC
NYPG720020863-B
Author
Wilson, Bryan R. Compiler
Title
Rationality, edited by Bryan R. Wilson.
Imprint
Evanston [Ill.] Harper & Row [1970]
Series
Key concepts in the social sciences.
Research Call Number
JFD 71-3523
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