On Anthropological Knowledge: Three Essays

by Dan Sperber

What can be understood of other cultures? And what can we learn about people in general from the study of other cultures? In the three closely related essays that constitute this book and which have already created considerable controversy in their original French versions, and been rewritten and expanded for this edition, Dan Sperber discusses these fundamental issues of anthropology. In the first essay he analyses the way in which anthropology is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521318513
• ISBN13: 9780521318518
• Release Date: June 1985
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.7"