Do anthropologists use rational actor models? The case of Marilyn Strathern

IJRDO - Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research 7 (3) (2022)
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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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