DO ANTHROPOLOGISTS USE RATIONAL ACTOR MODELS? THE CASE OF MARILYN STRATHERN

  • Terence Rajivan Edward
DOI: https://doi.org/10.53555/sshr.v7i3.4838
Keywords: Marilyn Strathern, rational actor model, implicit-explicit, assumption, positivism

Abstract

Economics uses rational actor models, but what about anthropology? I present an interpretation of the influential anthropologist Marilyn Strathern according to which she engages in a kind of rational actor modelling, but a kind that is different from economic modelling.

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Published
2022-03-25
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Terence Rajivan Edward. (2022). DO ANTHROPOLOGISTS USE RATIONAL ACTOR MODELS? THE CASE OF MARILYN STRATHERN. IJRDO - Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research, 7(3), 55-65. https://doi.org/10.53555/sshr.v7i3.4838
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Vol. 7 No. 3 (2022): IJRDO - Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research (ISSN: 2456-2971)
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