Professor Winch on Safari
- 1 May 1976
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in European Journal of Sociology
- Vol. 17 (1) , 157-180
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003975600005075
Abstract
One of the most widely cited of recent writings on the borderland of philosophy and anthropology is Peter Winch's ‘Understanding a Primitive Society’ (referred to hereafter asUPS)(I). The main reason for the breadth of its appeal would seem to be a blend of general principle and particular application all too seldom found in the writings of philosophers of social science. Thus, on the one hand, Winch develops further some of the general principles of cross-cultural understanding which he first enunciated in hisIdea of a Social Science(referred to hereafter as ISS) (2). And, on the other hand, he attempts to show us, in considerable detail, how these principles can be applied to the solution of a particularly vexing anthropological problem: that of interpreting ‘primitive’ mystical thought.Keywords
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