Chapter 1, Joanna Overing; Chapter 2 Degrees of intelligibility, Raymond Firth; Chapter 3 Social anthropology and the decline of Modernism, Edwin Ardener; Chapter 4 Facts and theories: saying and believing, Sybil Wolfram; Chapter 5 Is it rational to reject relativism?, Paul Hirst; Chapter 6 Anthropos through the looking-glass: or how to teach the Balinese to bark, Mark Hobart; Chapter 7 Reason, emotion, and the embodiment of power, David Parkin; Chapter 8, Joanna Overing; Chapter 9 Fire, meat, and children: the Berti myth, male dominance, and female power, Ladislav Holy; Chapter 10, Jonathan Parry; Chapter 11 ‘The Law is a ass’: an anthropological appraisal, Michael Saltman; Chapter 12 Maori epistemologies, Anne Salmond;
Joanna Overing is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science.