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Convention, Translation, and Understanding: Philosophical Problems in the Comparative Study of Culture

English · Hardback

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This book surveys several theoretical controversies in anthropology that revolve around reconciling the objective description of culture with the influence of inquirer interests and conceptions. It relates them to discussions by followers of W.V. Quine who see the problems of anthropological inquiry as indicative of conceptual problems in the basic assumptions operative in the discipline, and in the study of language in general. Feleppa offers a revised view of the nature and function of translation in anthropology that gives a plausible account of the problems that traditional semantics introduces into anthropology, while avoiding the severe methodological import Quine envisions.


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Robert Feleppa is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wichita State University.

Product details

Authors Robert Feleppa
Publisher Global Academic Publishing
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.07.1988
 
EAN 9780887066733
ISBN 978-0-88706-673-3
No. of pages 317
Dimensions 155 mm x 231 mm x 20 mm
Weight 476 g
Series Suny Series in Logic and Langu
Suny Series in Logic and Langu
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries

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