Societies differ in how they handle the same facts: an axiom of social anthropology?

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This paper challenges Marilyn Strathern’s claim that it is, or was, an axiom of social anthropology that societies differ in how they handle the same facts. I present a set of foundational commitments for conducting social anthropology which leave the truth of the proposition as an empirical question of the discipline.

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Terence Rajivan Edward
University of Manchester (PhD)

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