Modes of thought in Western and non-Western societies /

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 anthropolo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Horton, Robin (Editor ), Finnegan, Ruth H. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Eugene, Oregon : Wipf & Stock, [2017]
Temas:
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Philosophy, Comparative.
Thought and thinking.
Thinking
Sociologie de la connaissance.
Philosophie comparée.
Pensée.
sociology of knowledge.
thinking.
Knowledge, Sociology of
Philosophy, Comparative
Thought and thinking
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Ruth Finnegan and Robin Horton
  • Culture, memory and narrative / Benjamin Colby and Michael Cole
  • A reversed world: or is it? / Nobuhiro Nagashima
  • Literacy versus non-literacy: the great divide? / Ruth Finnegan
  • Colour-words and colour values: the evidence from Gusii / W. H. Whiteley
  • The savage and the modern mind / Ernest Gellner
  • The comparison of belief-systems: anomaly versus falsehood / Barry Barnes
  • Form and meaning of magical acts: a point of view / S. J. Tambiah
  • On the social determination of truth / Steven Lukes
  • Lévy- Bruhl, Durkheim and the Scientific Revolution / Robin Horton
  • Frobenius, Senghor and the image of Africa / J. M. Ita
  • Religion and secularism: the contemporary significance of Newman's thought / Hilary Jenkins
  • Basic differences of thought / Sybil Wolfram.

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