Primitive Man as Philosopher
Author | : Paul Radin |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2017-02-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1590178009 |
Anthropology is a science whose most significant discoveries have come when it has taken its bearings from literature, and what makes Paul Radin’s Primitive Man as Philosopher a seminal piece of anthropological inquiry is that it is also a book of enduring wonder. Writing in the 1920s, when anthropology was still young, Radin set out to show that “primitive” cultures are as intellectually sophisticated and venturesome as any of their “civilized” counterparts. The basic questions about the structure of the natural world, the nature of right and wrong, and the meaning of life and death, as well as basic methods of considering the truth or falsehood of the answers those questions give rise to, are, Radin argues, recognizably consistent across the whole range of human societies. He rejects both the romantic myth of the noble savage and the rationalist dismissal of the primitive mind as essentially undeveloped, averring that the anthropologist and the anthropologist’s subject meet on the same philosophical ground, and only when that is acknowledged can anthropology begin in earnest. The argument is clearly and forcibly made in pages that also contain an extraordinary collection of poems, proverbs, myths, and tales from a host of different cultures, making Primitive Man as Philosopher not only a lasting contribution to the discipline of anthropology but a unique, rich, and fascinating anthology, one that both illuminates and enlarges our imagination of the human.
Primitive Man as Philosopher
Author | : Paul Radin |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780486424958 |
Classic of anthropology explores belief systems of Winnebago, Oglala Sioux, Maori, Banda, Batak, Tahitian and Hawaiian, Zuni, and Ewe. Fascinating topics include purpose of life, marriage, freedom of thought, death, nature of reality, and other concepts. The author allows his subjects to speak for themselves by quoting extensively from interviews.
The Mind of Primitive Man
Author | : Franz Boas |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2023-01-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368613871 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1938.
Myth
Author | : Robert Alan Segal |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0198724705 |
This Very Short Introduction explores different approaches to myth from several disciplines, including science, religion, philosophy, literature, and psychology. In this new edition, Robert Segal considers both the future study of myth as well as the impact of areas such as cognitive science and the latest approaches to narrative theory.
Primitive Culture
Author | : Edward Burnett Tylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : |
Conjectures and Refutations
Author | : Karl Raimund Popper |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Knowledge, Theory of |
ISBN | : 9780415285940 |
Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the fundamental idea that guided his work: not only our knowledge, but our aims and our standards, grow through an unending process of trial and error.
Crashing Thunder
Author | : Sam Blowsnake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : |