Tradition as Truth and Communication: A Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse by Pascal Boyer

Tradition as Truth and Communication: A Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse

Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology #68

Pascal Boyer

156 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

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Tradition is a central concept in the social sciences, but it is commonly treated as unproblematic. Dr. Boyer insists that social anthropology requires a theory of tradition, its constitution and transmission. He treats tradition "as a type of int...

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