Culture and Practical Reason

by Marshall Sahlins

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226733610
• ISBN13: 9780226733616
• Release Date: February 1978
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.5"