Demystifying Mentalities Paperback / softback
by Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd
Part of the Themes in the Social Sciences series
Paperback / softback
Description
If faraway peoples have different ideas from our own, is this because they have different mentalities?
Did our remote ancestors lack logic? The notion of distinct mentalities has been used extensively by historians to describe and explain cultural diversity.
Professor Lloyd rejects this psychologising talk of mentalities and proposes an alternative approach, which takes as its starting point the social contexts of communication.
Discussing apparently irrational beliefs and behaviour (such as magic), he shows how different forms of thought coexist in a single culture but within conventionally defined contexts.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:184 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:31/08/1990
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- ISBN:9780521366809
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:184 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:31/08/1990
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521366809
