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Reconnaissances

Reconnaissances

Needham, Rodney

Paperback

Series: Heritage, Book 249

Anthropology

ISBN10: 0802064043
ISBN13: 9780802064042
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Nov 1 1980
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The reconnaissances of this book are ventures in the deep analysis of the unconscious as testified to by world ethnography. The topics examined are the image of the half-man, the operation of analogical classification, and ideas about sovereign powers to which men conceive themselves as subject. In each case, analysis brings out remarkable uniformities on a global scale. These cultural similarities are not correlated with particular social forms or linguistic traditions, and in their characteristics features they are not the products of deliberate cogitation or creative invention. The formal attributes they share are that they are premised on binary opposition and symmetry. The argument is that, intrinsically, the social facts in question are spontaneous products of unconscious 'cerebrational vectors, ' and that they are archetypes of human experience.

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