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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      27 August 2009
      30 March 1990
      ISBN:
      9780511521058
      9780521374170
      9780521024662
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511521058
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.402kg, 156 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.255kg, 156 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Psychology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology, Psychology
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (68)
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    Subjects:
    Social Psychology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology, Psychology
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (68)
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    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 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.

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