Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Stephen A. Tyler
  • Introduction: defining "Culture"
  • The synthesis of cultural cognition and depth psychology
  • Culture as a problem that cannot be solved
  • Twisted thinking and a dash of Hegelian dialectic: the misplaced legacy of Gregory Bateson
  • The rationalization of directive goals in explanatory desires
  • Cultural ambivalence and the paradoxes of desire in kinship
  • Myth and the dynamics of desire in kinship
  • The dialectical rationalization of cultural paradox in a formal explanatory system
  • Reflections on the anthropology of knowledge.