In Culture and Practical Reason, Marshall Sahlins argued that this social scientist's attempt to deduce general principles from specific examples resulted in absurd tautologies and meaningless taxonomic classifications.
In Culture and Practical Reason, Marshall Sahlins argued that this social scientist's attempt to deduce general principles from specific examples resulted in absurd tautologies and meaningless taxonomic classifications. Gregory Bateson attempted to synthesize the ideas of this social scientist and Margaret Mead in Naven. This social scientist contrasted avoidance relationships with joking relationships, and often compared social life to the life of an organism. This anthropologist attempted to apply Durkheim's sociology to studies of kinship, and along with Malinowski, this anthropologist led the "functionalist revolution" in British anthropology. For 10 points, name this British anthropologist who applied his social anthropology in his study of The Andaman Islanders.
In Culture and Practical Reason, Marshall Sahlins argued that this social scientist's attempt to deduce general principles from specific examples resulted in absurd tautologies and meaningless taxonomic classifications.
Alfred Reginald {Radcliffe-Brown}