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27 janvier 2022
- handle: 10670/1.0u8oto
- isbn: 9781800642065
- eisbn: 9791036529498
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Pascal Boyer, « 1. Anthropology, useful and scientific », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.0u8oto
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The essays gathered in this volume were all intended as contributions to what I would like to call a useful and scientific anthropology, two words that may seem a tad presumptuous and require an explanation. First, the useful part. The essays address specific questions such as the following: Why do some social institutions seem ‘natural’ to many people across different cultures? How do people form their views of the economy? Why do human beings engage in ritual behaviors, either pathological ...