Essays on cultural transmission / Maurice Bloch.
| Author/creator | Bloch, Maurice |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, ©2005. |
| Description | xi, 174 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Series | London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology ; v. 75 London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology ; v. 75. ^A423192 |
| Contents | Where did anthropology go? or, The need for 'human nature' -- Why trees, too, are good to think with : toward an anthropology of the meaning of life -- Questions not to ask of Malagasy carvings -- Commensality and poisoning -- What is passed on from parents to children : a cross-cultural investigation -- A well-disposed social anthropologist's problems with memes -- Are religious beliefs counter-intuitive? -- Ritual and deference -- Kinship and evolved psychological dispositions : the mother's brother controversy reconsidered. |
| Local note | Little-347900--305131054188$ |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2005010965 |
| ISBN | 1845202872 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9781845202873 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 1845202864 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9781845202866 (cloth) |