Jeremy Adler is Professor of German at King's College London and specializes ininterdisciplinary subjects such as literature and science, poetry and painting, literature and anthropology.

“These works… must be read and reread for their brilliance as individual pieces, but reading them as a collectivity makes the experience all the more richer and intellectually challenging.” • American Anthropologist

• List of IllustrationsPrefatory Note to Volume IIAcknowledgementsA Note on QuotationsPART I: INTRODUCTIONSChapter 1. Franz Steiner. A MemoirM. N. SrinivasChapter 2. Orientpolitik, Value and Civilisation: The Anthropological Thought of Franz Baermann SteinerJeremy Adler and Richard FardonPART II: ORIENTPOLITIK AND THE CIVILISING PROCESSChapter 3. OrientpolitikChapter 4. Gypsies in Carpathian RussiaChapter 5. Letter to Georg RappChapter 6. On the Process of CivilisationChapter 7. Letter to Mr. GandhiChapter 8. MemorandumPART III: SLAVERY, ECONOMICS, AND LABOURChapter 9. Slavery. From A Comparative Study of the Forms of SlaverySlave. A Term of Interstructural ReferenceThe Slavery-Serfdom Dichotomy and European ExperienceChapter 10. Notes on Comparative EconomicsChapter 11. Towards a Classification of LabourPART IV: KINSHIP, CLASSIFICATION, AND SOCIAL STRUCTUREChapter 12. Language, Society, and Social AnthropologyChapter 13. The Study of KinshipChapter 14. Aristotle's SociologyChapter 15. Some Problems in SimmelPART V: ESSAYS AND DISCOVERIESChapter 16. On the Margins of the Social SciencesChapter 17. Malinowksi and ConradChapter 18. Remarks on Truth, Method, and the SciencesPART VI: CONQUESTS I-VIIChapter 19. Conquests. From an Autobiographical PoemBibliography and References to Volumes I and IIName Index to Volumes I and IISubject Index to Volumes I and II

Jeremy Adler is Professor of German at King's College London and specializes ininterdisciplinary subjects such as literature and science, poetry and painting, literature and anthropology.

“These works… must be read and reread for their brilliance as individual pieces, but reading them as a collectivity makes the experience all the more richer and intellectually challenging.” • American Anthropologist

• List of IllustrationsPrefatory Note to Volume IIAcknowledgementsA Note on QuotationsPART I: INTRODUCTIONSChapter 1. Franz Steiner. A MemoirM. N. SrinivasChapter 2. Orientpolitik, Value and Civilisation: The Anthropological Thought of Franz Baermann SteinerJeremy Adler and Richard FardonPART II: ORIENTPOLITIK AND THE CIVILISING PROCESSChapter 3. OrientpolitikChapter 4. Gypsies in Carpathian RussiaChapter 5. Letter to Georg RappChapter 6. On the Process of CivilisationChapter 7. Letter to Mr. GandhiChapter 8. MemorandumPART III: SLAVERY, ECONOMICS, AND LABOURChapter 9. Slavery. From A Comparative Study of the Forms of SlaverySlave. A Term of Interstructural ReferenceThe Slavery-Serfdom Dichotomy and European ExperienceChapter 10. Notes on Comparative EconomicsChapter 11. Towards a Classification of LabourPART IV: KINSHIP, CLASSIFICATION, AND SOCIAL STRUCTUREChapter 12. Language, Society, and Social AnthropologyChapter 13. The Study of KinshipChapter 14. Aristotle's SociologyChapter 15. Some Problems in SimmelPART V: ESSAYS AND DISCOVERIESChapter 16. On the Margins of the Social SciencesChapter 17. Malinowksi and ConradChapter 18. Remarks on Truth, Method, and the SciencesPART VI: CONQUESTS I-VIIChapter 19. Conquests. From an Autobiographical PoemBibliography and References to Volumes I and IIName Index to Volumes I and IISubject Index to Volumes I and II