Rationality and Irrationality in Economics (Pocket)
avMaurice Godelier, Brian (TRN) Pearce, Maurice Godelier
ISBN: 9781781680254 - UTGIVEN: 2013-01This book is the result of a research project begun by the author in 1958 with the aim of answering two questions: First, what is the rationality of the economic systems that appear and disappear throughout history--in other words, what is their hidden logic and the underlying necessity for them to [...]
The Enigma of the Gift (Häftad)
avMaurice Godelier
ISBN: 9780226300450 - UTGIVEN: 199906This work reassesses the significance of gifts in social life by focusing on sacred objects which are never exchanged despite the value they possess. It presents an analysis of the seminal work of Marcel Mauss and Claude Levi-Strauss, and drawing on his own fieldwork in Melanesia, Maurice Godelier a[...]
The Mental and the Material (Pocket)
avMaurice Godelier
ISBN: 9780860919032 - UTGIVEN: 1988-05What is the specificity of the human race within nature? How is its history to be explained? What impact do material realities, natural and man-made, have on human beings? What role does thought, in all its dimensions, play in the production of social relations? How are the human sciences to be adva[...]
The Mental and the Material (Häftad)
avMaurice Godelier
ISBN: 9781844677900 - UTGIVEN: 201201What is the specificity of the human race within nature? How is its history to be explained? What impact do material realities, natural and man-made, have on human beings? What role does thought, in all its dimensions, play in the production of social relations? How are the human sciences to be adva[...]
