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6 produkter
Contexts of Kinship
An Essay in the Family Sociology of the Gonja of Northern Ghana
Av Esther N. Goody, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
748 kr
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In her study of domestic organization in Gonja, a formerly important West African state, now part of Ghana, Esther Goody has concentrated on tracing the interrelationships between political and domestic institutions in a bilateral kinship system, untypical of the area. After outlining the problems …
Parenthood and Social Reproduction
Fostering and Occupational Roles in West Africa
Häftad, 2007
732 kr
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Over the last twenty years, Esther Goody has made extensive studies of traditional and contemporary patterns of education and child-rearing in West Africa. In this book she provides an account of the rich variety of institutions, such as fostering, apprenticeship and wardship, which have developed …
From Craft to Industry
The Ethnography of Proto-Industrial Cloth Production
Häftad, 2009
557 kr
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The essays in this volume focus on two themes: the centrality of the production of and trade in cloth in the emergence of market activity; and the nature of the industrialization process. The core of the book is formed by four detailed ethnographic studies of the development and current …
Questions and Politeness
Strategies in Social Interaction
Häftad, 1978
569 kr
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These essays, by anthropologists and anthropological linguists, draw on material from speech communities in three continents to raise fundamental questions about the ways in which interrogative and politeness forms are used in day-to-day social interaction. The authors suggest that interrogative …
Social Intelligence and Interaction
Expressions and implications of the social bias in human intelligence
Inbunden, 1995
1302 kr
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There is a growing view that intelligence evolved as a product of social interdependence. The unique development of human intelligence was probably linked to the use of spoken language, but language itself evolved in the context of social interaction, and in its development it has shaped - and been …
Social Intelligence and Interaction
Expressions and implications of the social bias in human intelligence
Häftad, 1995
569 kr
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There is a growing view that intelligence evolved as a product of social interdependence. The unique development of human intelligence was probably linked to the use of spoken language, but language itself evolved in the context of social interaction, and in its development it has shaped - and been …
