C. M. Hann is former Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent and currently Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology at Halle/Saale, Germany.

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• Preface and AcknowledgmentsContributors1. Fast Forward: The Great Transformation Globalized C. M. Hann2. The Evolution of Society: A Darwinian Approach Krishan Kumar3. Rates of Change: Weasel Words and the Indispensable in Anthropological Analysis Roy Ellen4. Modelling Complexity and Change: Social Knowledge and Social Process Michael D. Fischer5. Social Creativity J. Davis6. Rustic Chivalry: Variations in Honour Ideologies in Italy and the Limits of Historical Explanation Nevill Colclough7. Meanings, Myths and Mystifications: The Social Construction of Life Stories in Russia Ray Pahl and Paul Thompson8. ‘And Who Now Plans Its Future?’: Land in South Africa after Apartheid Henry Bernstein9. Change, Cognition and Control: The Reconstruction of Nomadism in Iran Richard Tapper10. Creating Law: Trade, Productin and Accelerating Change in Late Ottoman Izmir June Starr11. The New Circle of Equity Ernest Gellner12. Social Change and Culture: Responses to Modernization in an Alevi Village in Anatolia David Shankland13. Negotiating Ethnographic Reality: Team Fieldwork in Turkey Emine Onaran Incirlioglu14. Social Standards and Social Thought Alan Rew15. The Application of Anthropology in Britain, 1983-1993 R. D. GrilloIndex

C. M. Hann is former Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent and currently Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology at Halle/Saale, Germany.

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• Preface and AcknowledgmentsContributors1. Fast Forward: The Great Transformation Globalized C. M. Hann2. The Evolution of Society: A Darwinian Approach Krishan Kumar3. Rates of Change: Weasel Words and the Indispensable in Anthropological Analysis Roy Ellen4. Modelling Complexity and Change: Social Knowledge and Social Process Michael D. Fischer5. Social Creativity J. Davis6. Rustic Chivalry: Variations in Honour Ideologies in Italy and the Limits of Historical Explanation Nevill Colclough7. Meanings, Myths and Mystifications: The Social Construction of Life Stories in Russia Ray Pahl and Paul Thompson8. ‘And Who Now Plans Its Future?’: Land in South Africa after Apartheid Henry Bernstein9. Change, Cognition and Control: The Reconstruction of Nomadism in Iran Richard Tapper10. Creating Law: Trade, Productin and Accelerating Change in Late Ottoman Izmir June Starr11. The New Circle of Equity Ernest Gellner12. Social Change and Culture: Responses to Modernization in an Alevi Village in Anatolia David Shankland13. Negotiating Ethnographic Reality: Team Fieldwork in Turkey Emine Onaran Incirlioglu14. Social Standards and Social Thought Alan Rew15. The Application of Anthropology in Britain, 1983-1993 R. D. GrilloIndex

C. M. Hann is former Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent and currently Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology at Halle/Saale, Germany.

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• Preface and AcknowledgmentsContributors1. Fast Forward: The Great Transformation Globalized C. M. Hann2. The Evolution of Society: A Darwinian Approach Krishan Kumar3. Rates of Change: Weasel Words and the Indispensable in Anthropological Analysis Roy Ellen4. Modelling Complexity and Change: Social Knowledge and Social Process Michael D. Fischer5. Social Creativity J. Davis6. Rustic Chivalry: Variations in Honour Ideologies in Italy and the Limits of Historical Explanation Nevill Colclough7. Meanings, Myths and Mystifications: The Social Construction of Life Stories in Russia Ray Pahl and Paul Thompson8. ‘And Who Now Plans Its Future?’: Land in South Africa after Apartheid Henry Bernstein9. Change, Cognition and Control: The Reconstruction of Nomadism in Iran Richard Tapper10. Creating Law: Trade, Productin and Accelerating Change in Late Ottoman Izmir June Starr11. The New Circle of Equity Ernest Gellner12. Social Change and Culture: Responses to Modernization in an Alevi Village in Anatolia David Shankland13. Negotiating Ethnographic Reality: Team Fieldwork in Turkey Emine Onaran Incirlioglu14. Social Standards and Social Thought Alan Rew15. The Application of Anthropology in Britain, 1983-1993 R. D. GrilloIndex