Circumstantial Deliveries

This simulating book gathers five lectures that ask questions of the broadest general intellectual interest: What is religion? Do other peoples have the same emotional states as we do? Why do humans make use of body imagery? In Circumstantial Deliveries, Rodney Needham shows that the comparative study of societies may furnish the answers.

Circumstantial Deliveries challenges the methodology and substance of many conventional ideas about human nature and calls for more radical and comparativ...