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Lloyd, Geoffrey Ernest Richard

 
9780521366618: Demystifying Mentalities (Themes in the Social Sciences)

Sinopsis

Professor Lloyd explores cultural diversity in terms of communication and not mentality.

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."..exceptionally thoughtful and persuasive critique of 'mentalities.'" Heinrich von Staden, ISIS

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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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9780521366809: Demystifying Mentalities Paperback (Themes in the Social Sciences)

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ISBN 10:  0521366801 ISBN 13:  9780521366809
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2008
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