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In and Out of Each Other's Bodies Theory of Mind, Evolution, Truth, and the Nature of the Social
By Maurice Bloch
Copyright 2013
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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What is human sociality? How are universals such as truth and doubt variously demonstrated and negotiated in different cultures? This book offers an accessible introduction to these and other fundamental human questions. Bloch shows that the social consists of two very different things. One is a matter of continual adjustments between individuals who read each others' minds and thus, as in sex and... Read more
Prefacei 1 Durkheimian Anthropology and Religion: Going In and Out of Each Other's Bodies 2 Why Religion Is Nothing Special but Is Central 3 Truth and Sight: Generalizing without Universalizing 4 Teknonymy and the Evocation of the "Social" among the Zafimaniry of Madagascar 5 Is There Religion in Catalhoyuk or Just Houses? 6 Types of Shared Doubt in the Flow of a Discussion 7 Toward a Cognitive Anthropology Grounded in Field Work: The Example of "Theory of Mind" 8 Levi-Strauss as an Evolutionary Anthropologist Index About the Author
Biography
Maurice Bloch
