The Voice of Prophecy : : And Other Essays / / ed. by Edwin Ardener.
Edwin Ardener - a new expanded edition of the collected works of one of the most important social anthroplogists in Britian of his time. Ardener worked on social, economic, demographic and political problems, and was particularly influential in his sustained effort to bring together social anthropol...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword – Edwin Ardener’s Prophetic Vision
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Social Anthropology and Language (with editorial preface)
- 2. The New Anthropology and its Critics
- 3 Language, Ethnicity and Population
- 4 Belief and the Problem of Women
- 5 Some Outstanding Problems in the Analysis of Events
- 6 ‘Behaviour’ – a Social Anthropological Criticism
- 7 Social Anthropology and Population
- 8 The ‘Problem’ Revisited
- 9 The Voice of Prophecy – Further Problems in the Analysis of Events
- 10 ‘Social Fitness’ and the Idea of ‘Survival’
- 11 Comprehending Others
- 12 The Problem of Dominance
- 13 Social Anthropology and the decline of Modernism
- 14 ‘Remote Areas’ – some Theoretical Considerations
- 15 Witchcraft, Economics and the Continuity of Belief
- 16 Social Anthropology and the Historicity of Historical Linguistics
- 17 Edward Sapir, 1884–1939
- 18 The Construction of History: ‘Vestiges of Creation’
- Postscript 1 – The Prophetic Condition
- Postscript 2 – Towards a Rigorously Empirical Anthropology
- Appendix: Edwin Ardener – a Bibliography
- Notes
- References
- Index