基本説明
Confronts the major theoretical issues involved in cross-cultural interpretation.
Full Description
Understanding Cultures confronts the major theoretical issues involved in cross-cultural interpretation. The book introduces students to rationality among the ancestors of anthropology before proceeding to a wide-ranging evaluation of the Anglo-American rationality debates.
Contents
Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction.
2. Anthropological Ancestors and Interpretation Theory: Boas, Malinowski, and Evans-Pritchard.
3. Peter Winch and Ordinary Language Philosophy.
4. The Neo-Popperians and the Logic of One Science: I.C. Jarvie and Robin Horton.
5. Ordinary Language Philosophy in Question: Steven Lukes and Alasdair MacIntyre.
6. Beyond Explanation and Understanding: The Hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur.
7. Hermeneutics and Critical Anthropology: The Synthesis of Practical and Critical Reason.
8. Modernism and Postmodernism in Anthropology.
9. Bounded Cultures - Bounded Selves: The Challenge of Cultural Diasporas.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
