Tradition as truth and communication : a cognitive description of traditional discourse
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.
Print Book, English, 1990
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1990
Cambridge studies in social anthropology, no. 68, 68
ix, 143 pages ; 24 cm.
9780521374170, 9780521024662, 0521374170, 0521024668
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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