Previously published under the title "Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences", this collection of essays is now available in paperback for a student audience. Ranging widely in philosophy, sociology and social anthropology, and the relationships and interaction between the three, The book employs an analytical and occasionally combative approach to elucidate key questions of social scientific method. The 15 essays: consider the work of other eminent social anthropologists (Evans-Pritchard, Leach, Malinowski); discuss trends and developments in approach to the social sciences, including functionalism and structuralism; and subject to rigorous analysis key issues in anthropological enquiry, such as kinship, the relation between nature and society, and the role of language.
- ISBN10 0631152873
- ISBN13 9780631152873
- Publish Date 12 February 1987
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 November 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Publishers
- Format Paperback
- Pages 230
- Language English