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On Anthropological Knowledge: Three Essays (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 54) by Sperber, Dan is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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What can be understood of other cultures? And what can we learn about people in general from the study of other cultures? In the three closely related essays that constitute this book and which have already created considerable controversy in their original French versions, and been rewritten and expanded for this edition, Dan Sperber discusses these fundamental issues of anthropology. In the first essay he analyses the way in which anthropology is written and read. In the second, he offers a no
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- Author
- Sperber, Dan
- Publisher
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York: Cambridge University Press: Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
- Published
- 1985
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521318518
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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