The Voice of Prophecy

And Other Essays

Buch | Hardcover

388 Seiten

2017
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-769-7 (ISBN)

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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 anthropology and linguistics in a highly original attempt to reconcile scientific and humanistic approaches to the study of society. This volume offers a theoretically and conceptually coherent body of work by this innovative and profound thinker, which will continue to excite and stimulate new generations of students and researchers as it has in the past.

Edwin Ardener (1927-1987) was a British social anthropologist and academic. He was also noted for his contributions to the study of history. Within anthropology, some of his most important contributions were to the study of gender. He also performed extensive fieldwork and wrote numerous works on Cameroon.

Foreword

Michael Herzfeld

Introduction

Malcolm Chapman

Acknowledgements

The Ardener Papers

Chapter 1. Social Anthropology and Language (with editorial preface)

Chapter 2. The New Anthropology and its Critics

Appendix

Chapter 3. Language, Ethnicity and Population

Chapter 4. Belief and the Problem of Women

Chapter 5. Some Outstanding Problems in the Analysis of Events

Chapter 6. 'Behaviour' - a Social Anthropological Criticism

Chapter 7. Social Anthropology and Population

Chapter 8. The 'Problem' Revisited

Chapter 9. The Voice of Prophecy

Chapter 10. 'Social Fitness' and the Idea of 'Survival'

Chapter 11. Comprehending Others

Chapter 12. The Problem of Dominance

Chapter 13. Social Anthropology and the Decline of Modernism

Chapter 14. 'Remote Areas' - some Theoretical Considerations

Chapter 15. Witchcraft, Economics and the Continuity of Belief

Chapter 16. Social Anthropology and the Historicity of Historical Linguistics

Chapter 17. Edward Sapir, 1884-1939

Chapter 18. The Construction of History: 'Vestiges of Creation'

Postscript I: The Prophetic Condition

Kirsten Hastrup

Postscript II: Towards a Rigorously Empirical Anthropology

Maryon McDonald

Appendix: Edwin Ardener - a Bibliography

Notes

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.10.2017
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-78533-769-6 / 1785337696
ISBN-13	978-1-78533-769-7 / 9781785337697
Zustand	Neuware