The Weans [Hardcover]

Robert Nathan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1974

8th printing.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Knopf (1974)
• ASIN: B001EBAQY4
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,646,129 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars how do we know what we know?, June 16, 2000

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Carol H. Tucker (Silver Spring, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Weans (Hardcover)

Stop and think about it -- with all the current buzz about knowledge management, the role of the cultural anthropologist has become even more vital to the real world of commerce.

Like the other two reviewers, I read this book some years ago as part and parcel of a college course in anthropology. It is a great allegorical reminder that there is no such thing as a historical fact, and that our assumptions about what happens in a culture are just that without being able to talk to the community itself!

I WANT this book and consider it a 'must read' for every person who intends to launch an initiative into the wilderness of organizational change and development.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Weans, March 6, 2000

By 

Angelo Buonomo - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Weans (Hardcover)

I read this book back in college more than 20 years ago. I would love to be able to purchase it. Anyone know where I could get a copy?

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Guesswork or history, what is closer to the truth?, April 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Weans (Hardcover)

It has been abaout 15 years since I read the book, but at the time I felt it had humor as well as merit. It might make an interesting book for a Junior Great Books discussion.