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Demystifying Mentalities

Demystifying Mentalities

Goody, Jack
Lloyd, Geoffrey E. R.
Lloyd, G. E. R.

Paperback

Series: Themes in the Social Sciences

PhilosophyAnthropology

ISBN10: 0521366801
ISBN13: 9780521366809
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 31 1990
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
If faraway peoples have different ideas from our own, is this because they have different mentalities? Did our remote ancestors lack logic? The notion of distinct mentalities has been used extensively by historians to describe and explain cultural diversity. Professor Lloyd rejects this psychologising talk of mentalities and proposes an alternative approach, which takes as its starting point the social contexts of communication. Discussing apparently irrational beliefs and behaviour (such as magic), he shows how different forms of thought coexist in a single culture but within conventionally defined contexts.

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