Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Conserved world-views or salient memories?
- 2 How to think with ‘empty’ notions
- 3 Criteria of truth
- 4 Customised speech (I): truth without intentions
- 5 Customised speech (II): truth without meaning
- 6 Customised persons: initiation, competence and position
- 7 Conclusions and programme
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Conserved world-views or salient memories?
- 2 How to think with ‘empty’ notions
- 3 Criteria of truth
- 4 Customised speech (I): truth without intentions
- 5 Customised speech (II): truth without meaning
- 6 Customised persons: initiation, competence and position
- 7 Conclusions and programme
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology
- Type
- Chapter
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- Tradition as Truth and CommunicationA Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse, pp. 121 - 130Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990