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Author : Robin Horton
Publisher : London : Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571095445
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (954 download)
Download or read book Modes of Thought written by Robin Horton and published by London : Faber. This book was released on 1973 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725238462
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Modes of Thought in Western and Non-Western Societies written by Ruth Finnegan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 collection. 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/non 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.
Author : Robin Horton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Modes of Thought written by Robin Horton and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wolfgang Fikentscher
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161479137
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (791 download)
Download or read book Modes of Thought written by Wolfgang Fikentscher and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2004 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Layton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135090637
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Who Needs the Past? written by R. Layton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critique of the all pervasive Western notion that other communities often live in a timeless present. Who Needs the Past? provides first-hand evidence of the interest non-Western, non-academic communities have in the past.
Author : E. Mendelsohn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789027712356
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Sciences and Cultures written by E. Mendelsohn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1981-07-31 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropological approaches to the sciences have developed as part of a broader tradition concerned about the place of the sciences in today's world and in some basic sense concerned with questions about the legitimacy of the sciences. In the years since the second World War, we have seen the emergence of a number of different attempts both to analyze and to cope with the successes of the sciences, their broad penetration into social life, and the sense of problem and crisis that they have projected. Among the of movements concerned about the earlier responses were the development social responsibility of scientists and technological practitioners. There is little doubt that this was a direct outgrowth of the role of science in the war epitomized by the successful construction and catastrophic use of the atomic bomb. The recognition of the deep social utility of science, and especially its role as an instrument of war, fostered curiosity about the earlier develop ment of scientific disciplines and institutional forms. The history of science as an explicit diSCipline with full-time practitioners can be seen as an attempt to locate science in temporal space - first in its intellectual form and second ly in its institutional or social form. The sociology of science, while certainly having roots in the pre-war work of Robert K.
Author : David R. Olson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521566445
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (664 download)
Download or read book Modes of Thought written by David R. Olson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modes of Thought addresses a topic of broad interest to the cognitive sciences. Its central focus is on the apparent contrast between the widely assumed 'psychological unity of mankind' and the facts of cognitive pluralism, the diverse ways in which people think and the developmental, cultural, technological and institutional factors which contribute to that diversity. Whether described in terms of modes of thought, cognitive styles, or sensibilities, the diversity of patterns of rationality to be found between cultures, in different historical periods, between individuals at different stages of development remains a central problem for a cultural psychology. Modes of Thought brings together anthropologists, historians, psychologists and educational theorists who manage to recognise the universality in thinking and yet acknowledge the cultural, historical and developmental contexts in which differences arise.
Author : Frederick G. Whelan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135838062
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Enlightenment Political Thought and Non-Western Societies written by Frederick G. Whelan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick G. Whelan, a leading scholar of Enlightenment political thought, provides an illuminating and incisive interpretation of key eighteenth and nineteenth century European political thinkers' accounts and assessments of the societies and political institutes of the non-Western world. These writers opened up a major new comparative dimension for political theory and its project both to explain and evaluate different political regimes. While the intellectual confrontation of European thinkers with alien cultures tended on the whole to confirm Westerners' sense of the superiority of their own institutions, it was also characterized – during the Enlightenment more so than later – by convictions regarding a common humanity and a corresponding sympathetic curiosity about different ways of life, however primitive or exotic they might appear. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of both political philosophy and thought as well as historians of this important period of history.
Author : K. Sykes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230617956
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Ethnographies of Moral Reasoning written by K. Sykes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than measure the actions of their subjects by reference to either universal rationality or cultural relativism, contributors in this volume describe ordinary people as they value human relationships and reason through the commonplace contradictions of their local way of life in a global age.
Author : Angelika Zirker
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027265186
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Dimensions of Iconicity written by Angelika Zirker and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses five different Dimensions of Iconicity. While some contributions examine the phonic dimensions of iconicity that are based on empirical, diachronic and theoretical work, others explore the function of similarity from a cognitive point of view. The section on multimodal dimensions takes into account philosophical, linguistic and literary perspectives in order to analyse, for example, the diagrammatic interplay of written texts and images. Contributions on performative dimensions of iconicity focus on Buddhist mantras, Hollywood films, and the dynamics of rhetorical structures in Shakespeare. Last but not least, the volume also addresses new ways of considering iconicity, including notational iconicity, the interplay of iconicity, ambiguity, interpretability, and the iconicity of literary analysis from a formal semanticist point of view.
Author : Reiland Rabaka
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739140353
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Forms of Fanonism written by Reiland Rabaka and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Frantz Fanon's critiques of racism, sexism, colonialism, capitalism, and humanism are brought into the ever-widening orbit of Africana critical theory something unprecedented in the annals of Africana intellectual history happens: five distinct forms of Fanonism emerge. Forms of Fanonism: Frantz Fanon's Critical Theory and the Dialectics of Decolonization is discursively distinguished from other engagements of Fanon's thought and texts insofar as it is the first study to consciously examine his contributions to Africana Studies and critical theory or, rather, the Africana tradition of critical theory. Forms of Fanonism identifies and intensely analyzes Fanon's contributions to the deconstruction and reconstruction of Africana Studies, radical politics, and critical social theory. In highlighting his unique 'solutions' to the 'problems' of racism, sexism, colonialism, capitalism, and humanism, five distinct forms of Fanonism materialize. These five forms of Fanonism allow contemporary critical theorists to innovatively explore the ways in which his thought and texts can be dialectically put to use in relieving the wretched experience of this generation's wretched of the earth. Critics can also apply these forms to deconstruct and reconstruct Africana Studies, radical politics, and critical social theory using their anti-imperialist interests. Throughout Forms of Fanonism, Reiland Rabaka critically dialogues with Fanon, incessantly asking his corpus critical questions and seeking from it crucial answers. This book, in short, solemnly keeps with Fanon's own predilection for connecting critical theory to revolutionary praxis by utilizing his thought and texts as paradigms and points of departure to deepen and develop the Africana tradition of critical theory.
Author : Hugo G. Nutini
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816541078
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Bloodsucking Witchcraft written by Hugo G. Nutini and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the rural areas of south-central Mexico, there are believed to be witches who transform themselves into animals in order to suck the blood from the necks of sleeping infants. This book analyzes beliefs held by the great majority of the population of rural Tlaxcala a generation ago and chronicles its drastic transformation since then. "The most comprehensive statement on this centrally important ethnographic phenomenon in the last forty years. It bears ready comparison with the two great classics, Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft Among the Azande and Clyde Kluckhohn's Navaho Witchcraft."—Henry H. Selby
Author : Kenneth Dahlberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461329108
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Green Revolution written by Kenneth Dahlberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which is the result of an intellectual odyssey, began as an attempt to explore and map the environmental and cross-cultural dimensions of the continuing spread of the green revolution-that package of high-yielding varieties of grain, fertilizers, irrigation, and pesticides that constitutes the core of modern industrial agriculture. In the process of traversing the terrain of several intellectual traditions and cutting through various disciplinary forests and thickets, a number of striking observations were made-all leading to two sober ing conclusions. First, most intellectual maps dealing with agriculture fail to recognize it as the basic interface between human societies and their environment. Because of this, they are little better than the "flat earth" maps of earlier centuries in helping to understand global realities. Second, when agriculture is analyzed from a global perspec tive that takes evolution seriously, one sees that the ecological risks as well as the energy and social costs of modern industrial agriculture make it largely inappropriate for developing countries. Beyond that, one can see a great need within industrialized countries to develop less costly, less risky, and more sustainable agricultural alternatives. Early in the journey it became clear that conventional disciplinary approaches were inadequate to comprehend the scope and diversity of global agriculture and that a new multilevel approach was needed. It also became clear that any new approach would have to try to correct certain Western biases and blind spots.
Author : Timothy G. Reagan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135615667
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Non-Western Educational Traditions written by Timothy G. Reagan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09-22 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a brief yet comprehensive overview of a number of non-Western approaches to educational thought and practice. Its premise is that understanding the ways that other people educate their children--as well as what counts for them as "education"--may help us think more clearly about some of our own assumptions and values, and to become more open to alternative viewpoints about important educational matters. The value of this informative, mind-opening text for preservice and in-service teacher education courses is enhanced by "Questions for Discussion and Reflection" and "Recommended Further Readings" included in each chapter. New in the Third Edition: *Chapter 2, "Conceptualizing Culture:" 'I, We, and The Other,' is new to this edition. It is a response to feedback about the problems inherent in our general discourse about "culture," and in addition provides an example of a culture that is near to us but nevertheless alien-the culture of the Deaf-World. *Chapter 9-which deals with Islam and traditional Muslim education-has been substantially revised. *The subtitle of the Third Edition has been changed to Indigenous Approaches to Educational Thought and Practice, reflecting not so much a change in the emphases found in the book, but rather, a recognition of the growing scholarly interest in indigenous peoples, their languages, cultures, and histories. *Various points throughout the text have been expanded and clarified, and chapters have been updated as needed.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004457089
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Visions of Culture and the Models of Cultural Sciences written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abdulmouti Souwed
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1543772595
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (437 download)
Download or read book The Reason Under Fire written by Abdulmouti Souwed and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1- Criticizing the idea of the fall of civilization and listing and discussing evidence from books about the fall 2- The continuity of civilization's misfortune with the excellent realization of the victories of the Age of Enlightenment, considering it the first embodiment based on reason, science and humanity as the pillars of civilization. 3- Presentation of the author's thesis with the title ” Meta-Civilization” and, talk about the pillars of the second civilization considering the progress Science-Technology as big pillar of Meta Finally, the conclusion with open questions
Author : Benson Saler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110218658
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Understanding Religion written by Benson Saler and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.
