The Anthropology of Eastern Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies, Leaf Murray J.
Автор: Leaf Murray J Название: Human Thought and Social Organization ISBN: 0739170287 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739170281 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 40462.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Human beings have two outstanding characteristics compared to all other species: the apparently enormous elaboration of our thought through language and symbolism and the elaboration of our forms of social organization. The view taken in Human Thought and Social Organization: Anthropology on a New Plane is that these are intimately interconnected. To understand this connection, the book compares the structure of the systems of thought that organizations are built upon with the organizational basis of human thinking as such. An experimental method is used, leading to a new science of the structure of human social organizations in two senses. First, it gives rise to a new kind of ethnology that has the combination of empirical solidity and formal analytical rigor associated with the paradigmatic sciences. Second, it makes evident that social organizations have distinctive properties and require distinctive explanations of a sort that cannot be reduced to the explanations drawn from, or grounded in, these other sciences. Human social organizations are created by people using systems of ideas with very specific logical properties. This book describes what these idea-systems are with an unbroken chain of analysis that begins with field elicitation and continues by working out their most fundamental, logico-mathematical generative elements. This enables us to see precisely how these idea systems are used to generate organizations that give pattern to ongoing behavior. The book shows how organizations are objectified by community members through symbolic representations that provide them with shared conceptions of organizations, roles, or relations that they see each other as participating in. The case for this constructive process being pan-Homo sapiens is described, spanning all human communities from the Upper Paleolithic to today, and from the most seemingly primitive Australian tribes to modern-day America and India. While focusing primarily on kinship, Human Thought and Social Organization shows how the analysis applies with equal precision to other social areas ranging from farming to political factionalism.
Описание: The world s great religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them and, therefore, to debating what understanding itself is and how best to do it. They also have important public missions of many kinds, and their ideas and organizations influence many other important institutions, including government, law, education, and kinship. The Anthropology of Western Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies is a comparative survey of the world s major religious traditions as professional enterprises and, often, as social movements. Documenting the principle ideas behind Western religious traditions from an anthropological perspective, Murray J. Leaf demonstrates how these ideas have been used in building internal organizations that mobilize or fail to mobilize external support."
Автор: Leaf Murray J., Read Dwight Название: Human Thought and Social Organization: Anthropology on a New Plane ISBN: 0739197975 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739197974 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 8762.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Two characteristics of human beings as a species are: the elaboration of our thought through language and symbolism, and the pluralistic nature of our systems of social organization. This book shows how these two characteristics are related by determining the conceptual structures that are fundamental to human thought and social organization.
Описание: The Anthropology of Eastern Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies is a comparative survey of the world`s major religious traditions as professional enterprises and, often, as social movements. Documenting the principle ideas behind Eastern religious traditions fr...
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