Disciplines in the making [electronic resource] : cross-cultural perspectives on elites, learning, and innovation /
by Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard).
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BookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780191721649 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Learning and scholarship -- Cross-cultural studies | Universities and colleges -- Curricula -- Cross-cultural studies | Elite (Social sciences) -- Attitudes -- Cross-cultural studiesOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: We tend to assume that our map of the intellectual disciplines is valid cross-culturally. Lloyd challenges this in relation to eight main areas of human endeavour, namely philosophy, mathematics, history, medicine, art, law, religion, and science, by examining how the disciplines were conceived and developed.
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We tend to assume that our map of the intellectual disciplines is valid cross-culturally. Lloyd challenges this in relation to eight main areas of human endeavour, namely philosophy, mathematics, history, medicine, art, law, religion, and science, by examining how the disciplines were conceived and developed.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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