The Retreat of the Social : : The Rise and Rise of Reductionism / / ed. by Bruce Kapferer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Baca, George,; Bastin, Rohan,; Ernst, Thomas,; Friedman, Jonathan,; Hart, Keith,; Iteanu, André,; Just, Roger,; Kapferer, Bruce,; Siikala, Jukka,; Taylor, Christopher C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Kapferer, Bruce,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (132 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: The Social Construction of Reductionist Thought and Practice --; The Relocation of the Social and the Retrenchment of the Elites --; Legends of Fordism: Between Myth, History, and Foregone Conclusions --; More Power to You, or Should It Be Less? --; Methodological Individualism and Sociological Reductionism --; Reductionism and Misunderstanding Human Sociality --; Theories and Ideologies in Anthropology --; Death of the Indian Social --; When Nothing Stands Outside the Self --; From Bell Curve to Power Law: Distributional Models between National and World Society --; Notes on Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782387190; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782387190?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Bruce Kapferer.

The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily separated from larger political processes of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism - is one factor resulting in notions of the social and of society as becoming little else than empty shells of small or no analytical value. The essays presented here, all by leading anthropologists, take a variety of positions on the matter of the retreat of the social. All demonstrate that if anthropology and other social sciences are to fulfill the task of a critical understanding of the diverse realities in which we all must live, these disciplines will find it impossible to so do without a strong concept of the social.