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324 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780791429747
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 03 July 1996
Description
Using examples from Islamic law, Ndembu divination, and Aranda religion, this book argues how the notion of "canon" is used to authorize and maintain certain types of interpretive reasoning and the social institutions that employ them. The bulk of...
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324 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780791429747
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 03 July 1996
Description
Using examples from Islamic law, Ndembu divination, and Aranda religion, this book argues how the notion of "canon" is used to authorize and maintain certain types of interpretive reasoning and the social institutions that employ them. The bulk of...