Titre: Convention, Translation, and Understanding: Philosophical Problems in the Comparative Study of Culture
�diteur: State University of New York Press (SUNY Series in Logic and Language)
Date de parution: 1988
Langue: anglais
ISBN � 10 chiffres: 0887066739
ISBN � 13 chiffres: 9780887066733
Reliure: Hardcover
�tat de l'article: Fine

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This book surveys several theoretical controversies in anthropology that revolve around reconciling the objective description of culture with the influence of inquirer interests and conceptions. It relates them to discussions by followers of W.V. Quine who see the problems of anthropological inquiry as indicative of conceptual problems in the basic assumptions operative in the discipline, and in the study of language in general. Feleppa offers a revised view of the nature and function of translation in anthropology that gives a plausible account of the problems that traditional semantics introduces into anthropology, while avoiding the severe methodological import Quine envisions.

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Robert Feleppa is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wichita State University.

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