| Description |
xvi, 163 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Mestizo spaces = Espaces métissés |
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Mestizo spaces.
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| Contents |
Foreword to the American Edition / W. V. O. Quine -- Preface to the American Edition / Barry Hallen -- Foreword / Dorothy Emmet -- 1. Indeterminacy and the Translation of Alien Behaviour -- 2. An African Epistemology: The Knowledge-Belief Distinction and Yoruba Discourse -- 3. The Secrecy of the 'Aje' -- Afterword: Indeterminacy, Ethnophilosophy, Linguistic Philosophy, African Philosophy / Barry Hallen -- App. Yoruba Quotations for Chapter Two |
| Summary |
First published in 1986, Knowledge, Belief and Witchcraft remains the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken from within the framework of Anglo-American analytical philosophy. Taking as its point of departure W.V.O. Quine's thesis about the indeterminacy of translation, the book investigates questions of Yoruba epistemology and of how knowledge is conceived in an oral culture |
| Notes |
Originally published: Ethnographica, 1986 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-159) and index |
| Notes |
Originally published: Ethnographica, 1986 |
| Subject |
Belief and doubt.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Philosophy, African.
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Philosophy, Yoruba.
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Witchcraft -- Nigeria.
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Yoruba language -- Semantics.
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| Author |
Sodipo, J. O.
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| LC no. |
96053559 |
| ISBN |
0804728224 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0804728232 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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