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"The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists. He demonstrates that symbols enter all phases of social life: those which we tend to regard as strictly pragmatic, or based on concerns with material need or advantage, as well as those wh
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- Author
- Marshall Sahlins. --
- Publisher
- The University Of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1976
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226733593
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Science, Sociology
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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