Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja

Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality / Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah - Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990. - xi, 187 p. : ill. ; 24 cm - The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1984 .

Originally published in 1990

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-176) and index.

1. Magic, science and religion in Western thought: anthropology's intellectual legacy
2. Anthropology's intellectual legacy (continued)
3. Sir Edward Tylor versus Bronislaw Malinowski: is magic false science or meaningful performance?
4. Malinowski's demarcations and his exposition of the magical art
5. Multiple orderings of reality: the debate initiated by Lévy-Bruhl
6. Rationality, relativism, the translation and commensurability of cultures
7. Modern science and its extensions

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Ethnology--Philosophy--History
Rationalism.

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