The Mental and the Material
thought economy and society
$23.20
- Paperback
266 pages
- Release Date
28 December 2011
Summary
What is the specificity of the human race within nature? How is its history to be explained? What impact do material realities, natural and man-made, have on human beings? What role does thought, in all its dimensions, play in the production of social relations? How are the human sciences to be advanced today? These are among the crucial questions confronted by Godelier in this key book of contemporary social theory. Its point of departure lies in a fact and a hypothesis. The fact: in contras…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844677900 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844677907 |
| Series: | Radical Thinkers |
| Author: | Maurice Godelier, Martin Thom |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 266 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 28 December 2011 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 132mm x 20mm |
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“Engaging and intriguing-Anthropology, it would seem, may yet return from the graveyard of structuralism to stir up some debate in the social sciences.”- New Statesman
Engaging and intriguing-Anthropology, it would seem, may yet return from the graveyard of structuralism to stir up some debate in the social sciences. * New Statesman *
About The Author
Maurice Godelier
Maurice Godelier is a world-renowned anthropologist. Among the many honours he has received are the CNRS Gold Medal and the Alexander von Humbolt prize. His major works include The Making of Great Men, Metamorphoses of Kinship, The Enigma of the Gift, In and Out of the West, and more recently Lévi-Strauss: A Critical Study of His Thought.
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