Tradition as Truth and Communication\n\nA Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse\n\nTradition 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.\n\nPascal Boyer (Author)\n\n9780521024662, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 16 March 2006\n\n156 pages\n22.6 x 15.1 x 0.9 cm, 0.255 kg\n\nTradition is a central concept in the social sciences, but it is commonly treated as unproblematic. Dr Boyer insists that social anthropology requires a theory of tradition, its constitution and transmission. He treats tradition 'as a type of interaction which results in the repetition which results in the repetition of certain communicative events', and therefore as a form of social action. Tradition as Truth and Communication deals particularly with oral communication and focuses on the privileged ]