Closed systems and open minds
Subtitle: the limits of naïvety in social anthropology.
Publisher: Aldine Pub. Co.
Published: 1964
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Sociology.; Anthropology.
Description: Synopsis: Social anthropology, defined operationally in terms of what social anthropologists have done in the last fifty years, is the study and comparison of tribal societies and of small fields of social life with emphasis on the role of custom. When a social anthropologist's research leads him into any field which belongs to other disciplines, what line should he adopt? What use may he make of the results that other scholars have already achieved? Must he knowingly make naive assumptions concerning events which they have regarded as complex?
Notes: Bibliography: p. [263]-268.