“Masterful. . . Evens sustains a highly disciplined argument with broad theoretical implications outside anthropology as well as in it. Two Kinds of Rationality is in many ways not an anthropological text but, rather, a theoretical treatise with deep roots in philosophy and the self-imposed task of providing a social theory/theory of social action as abstract and powerful in magnitude as Jurgen Habermas' theory of communicative rationality, Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice, or Charles Taylor's theory of 'the self’.” Virginia Dominguez, University of California, Santa Cruz