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The Principles of Representative Government
Av Bernard Manin, Jack Goody m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
716 kr
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The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocratic, aristocratic elements. Professor Manin challenges the conventional view that representative democracy is no more than an indirect form of …
Creative Lives and Works
Raymond Firth, Audrey Richards, Lucy Mair, Meyer Fortes and Edmund Leach
Av Alan Macfarlane, Jack Goody m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2879 kr
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Creative Lives and Works: Raymond Firth, Audrey Richards, Lucy Mair, Meyer Fortes and Edmund Leach is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of 40 years, the five conversations in this …
Creative Lives and Works
Adrian C. Mayer, M.N. Srinivas, André Béteille and Johnathan Parry
Av Alan Macfarlane, Jack Goody
Inbunden, 2021
2879 kr
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Creative Lives and Works: Adrian C. Mayer, M.N. Srinivas, André Béteille and Johnathan Parry is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of 40 years, the four conversations in this volume, …
Death and the Ancestors
A Study of the Mortuary Customs of the LoDagaa of West Africa
Av Jack Goody
Inbunden, 2004
3781 kr
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Deliberately considering relevant theories put forward by earlier writers and examining them in the light of the research for this particular book, the author spent over 100 days attending funeral ceremonies and he attended 25 burial services.First published in 1962.
Comparative Studies in Kinship
Av Jack Goody
Inbunden, 2004
3781 kr
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Against the background of the problems involved in the comparative study of human society, the essays in this book show the comparative ideal in practice, which combines elements from both sociology and anthropology.In each essay, specific problems are treated in a way which tests theory against …
Comparative Studies in Kinship
Av Jack Goody
Häftad, 2013
752 kr
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Against the background of the problems involved in the comparative study of human society, the essays in this book show the comparative ideal in practice, which combines elements from both sociology and anthropology.In each essay, specific problems are treated in a way which tests theory against …
Social Organisation of the Lo Wiili
Av Jack Goody
E-bok, 2018
658 kr
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Originally published in 1967 (second edition) presents an account of the life and social organisation of the Lo Wiili of the Haute Volta and Ghana. Chapters on the geographic and ethnographic background and economic system are followed by a detailed analysis of Lo Wiili social organisation which in …
Social Organisation of the Lo Wiili
Av Jack Goody
E-bok, 2018
644 kr
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Originally published in 1967 (second edition) presents an account of the life and social organisation of the Lo Wiili of the Haute Volta and Ghana. Chapters on the geographic and ethnographic background and economic system are followed by a detailed analysis of Lo Wiili social organisation which in …
Changing Social Structure in Ghana
Essays in the Comparative Sociology of a new State and an old Tradition
Av Jack Goody
E-bok, 2018
658 kr
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Originally published in 1975, this book presents the results of research into social change in Ghana. The book looks in detail at the problems of particular sub-groups and sectors in one single nation and they show that the field-worker with a wide comparative background in the range of …
Changing Social Structure in Ghana
Essays in the Comparative Sociology of a new State and an old Tradition
Av Jack Goody
E-bok, 2018
658 kr
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Originally published in 1975, this book presents the results of research into social change in Ghana. The book looks in detail at the problems of particular sub-groups and sectors in one single nation and they show that the field-worker with a wide comparative background in the range of …
Technology, Tradition and the State in Africa
Av Jack Goody
E-bok, 2018
607 kr
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Originally published in 1971 this book argues that certain aspects of traditional African social systems have been misunderstood because of a failure to appreciate what is implied by important differences between the technologies of the major traditional African states and those of Europe and Asia. …
Technology, Tradition and the State in Africa
Av Jack Goody
E-bok, 2018
589 kr
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Originally published in 1971 this book argues that certain aspects of traditional African social systems have been misunderstood because of a failure to appreciate what is implied by important differences between the technologies of the major traditional African states and those of Europe and Asia. …
The Bedouin of Cyrenaica
Studies in Personal and Corporate Power
Av Emrys L. Peters, Jack Goody m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
944 kr
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Emrys Peters studied the Bedouin of Libya for more than thirty years. The handful of articles published during his lifetime were widely admired and are still essential reading for anthropologists. He left further significant papers unpublished at his death, and the editors have drawn on these for …
The Developmental Cycle in Domestic Groups
Av Jack Goody, Goody m. fl.
Häftad, 1971
569 kr
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Social scientists, when making their studies of the structure of family groups, have often observed the current situation of a particular group of families and drawn conclusions from that static picture. Valuable as many of these conclusions may be, they are incomplete because they overlook the …
Bridewealth and Dowry
Häftad, 1973
366 kr
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Bridewealth and dowry have certain obvious similarities in that they both involve the transmission of property at marriage, the usual interpretation suggesting that what distinguishes them is the direction in which the property travels - in the case of bridewealth, from the husband and his kin to …
Myth, Ritual and the Oral
Av Jack Goody
Häftad, 2010
373 kr
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In Myth, Ritual and the Oral Jack Goody, one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists, returns to the related themes of myth, orality and literacy, subjects that have long been a touchstone in anthropological thinking. Combining classic papers with recent unpublished work, this volume …
Leninism: A Sociological Interpretation
Av David Lane, Jack Goody m. fl.
Häftad, 1981
569 kr
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It is now well over a hundred years since the birth of Lenin. If his writings are to have the relevance for contemporary political action, it is necessary that they be understood within the specific historical context in which they arose. It is such an understanding that David Lane provides in this …
Cooking, Cuisine and Class
A Study in Comparative Sociology
Av Jack Goody
Häftad, 1982
471 kr
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The preparation, serving and eating of food are common features of all human societies, and have been the focus of study for numerous anthropologists - from Sir James Frazer onwards - from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives. It is in the context of this previous anthropological …
Environment, Subsistence and System
The Ecology of Small-Scale Social Formations
Av Roy Ellen, Jack Goody
Häftad, 1982
634 kr
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Human ecology is ultimately part of a general theory of society. This is the argument developed here by Roy Ellen, whose exploration of the interplay between social organization and ecology in small-scale subsistence systems has direct bearings both on the investigation of human environmental …
The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe
Av Jack Goody
Häftad, 1983
394 kr
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Around 300 A.D. European patterns of marriage and kinship were turned on their head. What had previously been the norm - marriage to close kin - became the new taboo. The same applied to adoption, the obligation of a man to marry his brother's widow and a number of other central practices. With …
The Character of Kinship
Av Goody, Jack Goody
Häftad, 1975
634 kr
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A collection of specially commissioned essays dealing with general aspects of kinship, family and marriage from an anthropological point of view, that is, considering the total range of human societies. In his editorial introduction, Jack Goody explains that his aim has been to provide 'essays …
Literacy in Traditional Societies
Av Jack Goody, Jack Goody
Häftad, 1975
944 kr
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The importance of writing as a means of communication in a society formerly without it, or where writing has been confined to particular groups, is enormous. It objectifies speech, provides language with a material correlative, and in this material form speech can be transmitted over space and …
Culture and Communication
The Logic by which Symbols Are Connected. An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Social Anthropology
Av Edmund Leach, Jack Goody m. fl.
Häftad, 1976
373 kr
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Edmund Leach's book investigates the writings of 'structuralists,' and their different theories: the general incest theory and of animal sacrifice. This book is designed for the use of teaching undergraduates in anthropology, linguistics, literary studies, philosophy and related disciplines faced …
Production and Reproduction
A Comparative Study of the Domestic Domain
Av Jack Goody, Jack Goody
Häftad, 1977
373 kr
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This book is an attempt to see the development of domestic institutions, the family, marriage, conjugal roles, in relation to changes in the mode of productive activity, and specifically with the change from hoe to plough agriculture. These differences are related to societies in Africa on the one …
The Domestication of the Savage Mind
Av Jack Goody
Häftad, 1977
390 kr
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Current theories and views on the differences in the 'mind' of human societies depend very much on a dichotomy between 'advanced' and 'primitive', or between 'open' and 'closed', or between 'domesticated' and 'savage', that is to say, between one of a whole variety of 'we-they' distinctions. …
Family and Inheritance
Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800
Av Jack Goody, Joan Thirsk m. fl.
Häftad, 1978
687 kr
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This pioneering book examines different aspects of the inheritance customs in rural Western Europe in the pre-industrial age: for families and whole societies, the roles of lawyers in reducing them to a common system, and the recurring debate on the merits of various inheritance customs in shaping …
Families in Former Times
Av Jean Louis Flandrin, Jack Goody m. fl.
Häftad, 1979
538 kr
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In this book, the author provides a detailed analysis of kinship, household and family relations in early modern France. He discusses the strength of kinship and family ties, the structure of households, the rights and duties of husband and wife, their authority over their children, the role of the …
Naturalism and Social Science
A Post-Empiricist Philosophy of Social Science
Av David Thomas, Jack Goody m. fl.
Häftad, 1980
536 kr
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This 1979 text addresses the ways in which the dominant theories in large areas of Western social science have been subject to strong criticisms, particularly of their supposed philosophical deficiencies. In the philosophy of science, this resulted in empiricist views being replaced by an emphasis …
Succession to High Office
Av Jack Goody
Häftad, 1979
569 kr
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Positions of authority in any society are limited in number, and therefore rules of selection must operate in their recruitment. There must also be limitations upon the range of authority exercised. These problems are particularly acute in the case of high office, where the questions of recruitment …
The Ethnic Revival
Av Anthony D. Smith, Jack Goody
Häftad, 1981
569 kr
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Since the Second World War, the world has witnessed a remarkable efflorescence of ethnic feeling and nationalist aspirations. Among Bretons, Basques, Scots, Welsh, Flemish, Quebecois, Catalans, Kurds, Ibo, Somali, and a host of other communities, ethnic movements demanding much greater autonomy, or …
