Tradition as Truth and Communication: A Cognitive Description of Traditional DiscourseCambridge University Press, 30.03.1990 - 143 Seiten 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 interaction which results in the repetition of certain communicative events," and therefore as a form of social action. Tradition as Truth and Communication deals particularly with oral communication and focuses on the privileged role of licensed speakers and the ritual contexts in which certain aspects of tradition are characteristically transmitted. Drawing on cognitive psychology, Dr. Boyer proposes a set of general hypotheses to be tested by ethnographic field research. He has opened up an important new field for investigation within social anthropology. |
Inhalt
1 Conserved worldviews or salient memories? | 1 |
2 How to think with empty notions | 24 |
3 Criteria of truth | 46 |
truth without intentions | 61 |
truth without meaning | 79 |
initiation competence and position | 94 |
7 Conclusions and programme | 107 |
Notes | 121 |
Bibliography | 131 |
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abstract actors ancestors ant-hills anthropological theories anthropologists apply argument aspects assumptions bekong beliefs Bloch's Boyer causal link chapter claims cognitive common discourse concerned consequence conservatism conservative considered criteria of truth crucial cultural definition described diagnosis divination divination rituals divinatory statements domain empirical entities ethnographic everyday evur example explain expressed fact Fang focus formalised giraffes hypotheses idea illocutionary illocutionary force implicit implies important initiation initiation rites instance interpretation involved Kensington Palace knowledge mbommvet memory Merina models Mundang mvet natural kinds notion Obviously organised people's phenomena plausible positions possible precisely principles problem procedures propositions psychological put forward question relevant representations represented ritual language ritual speech ritualised salient semantic memory semiotic sentence shamans singular situations social interaction speakers specific speech act supposed theory of tradition traditional categories traditional contexts traditional discourse traditional interaction traditional repetition traditional truths truth predicates underlying utterances witch-doctor witchcraft world-views