| Convention, Translation, and Understanding: Philosophical Problems in the Comparative Study of Culture Contributor(s): Feleppa, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0887066747 ISBN-13: 9780887066740 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1988 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 306.4 |
| LCCN: 87012176 |
| Series: Suny Logic and Language |
| Physical Information: (0.98 lbs) 317 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
