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How Societies Remember
Häftad, 1989
329 kr
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In treating memory as a cultural rather than an individual faculty, this book provides an account of how bodily practices are transmitted in, and as, traditions. Most studies of memory as a cultural faculty focus on written, or inscribed transmissions of memories. Paul Connerton, on the other hand, …
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 …
The Principles of Representative Government
Inbunden, 1997
1628 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 …
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 …
Patrons, Clients and Friends
Interpersonal Relations and the Structure of Trust in Society
Av S. N. Eisenstadt, Luis Roniger
Häftad, 1984
667 kr
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The form of social relations described by the terms 'patronage' and 'patron-client relations' is of central concern to sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists today. Characterised by its voluntary and highly personal but often fully institutionalised nature, it is a type of behaviour …
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 …
Rational Choice and Social Exchange
A Critique of Exchange Theory
Häftad, 1976
569 kr
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When this volume was first published in 1976, exchange theory had recently come into the fore in sociology as an attempt to develop systematic theories of social behaviour comparable to those which economics had developed. In doing so it borrowed from many different intellectual traditions …
Communes, Sociology and Society
Av Philip Abrams, Andrew McCulloch m. fl.
Häftad, 1976
569 kr
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Based on a study of the commune movement in Britain, this 1976 book is an attempt to explore the ability of sociology to understand the world of the 'alternative society' and to examine the implications of the success and failure of communal projects for fundamental sociological theories about the …
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. …
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 …
Maidens, Meal and Money
Capitalism and the Domestic Community
Häftad, 1981
406 kr
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For over twenty years, Claude Meillassoux has been concerned with the study of the different modes of production which existed in Africa prior to colonisation, and the ways in which they responded to colonisation. In this book Professor Meillassoux draws both on his extensive fieldwork in Africa …
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 …
The Politics of Socialism
An Essay in Political Theory
Av John Dunn
Häftad, 1984
439 kr
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'Why do any human beings choose to be socialists? Why has socialist politics proved in practice so frequently disappointing? How far can socialist ideas still serve to inform and guide political judgement in modern states for the better? Are the evident weaknesses of socialist politics in all its …
Reproducing Families
The Political Economy of English Population History
Av David P. Levine, Jack Goody
Häftad, 1987
569 kr
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Reviewing the course of English population history from 1066 to the eighties, this book challenges orthodoxies about the evolution of English family forms, and offers a bold interpretation of the inter-connections between social, economic, demographic and family history. Taking as the point of …
Individuals, Relationships and Culture
Links between Ethology and the Social Sciences
Av Robert A. Hinde, Jack Goody m. fl.
Häftad, 1987
553 kr
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Both biologists and social scientists have much to say about human behaviour. Yet attempts to combine their approaches to provide a deeper understanding of human nature have not so far been generally successful. First published in 1987, this book offered an original way of bridging the gap between …
Demystifying Mentalities
Av Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, Jack Goody
Häftad, 1990
743 kr
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If faraway peoples have different ideas from our own, is this because they have different mentalities? Did our remote ancestors lack logic? The notion of distinct mentalities has been used extensively by historians to describe and explain cultural diversity. Professor Lloyd rejects this …
Aping Language
Inbunden, 1992
1173 kr
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Language is regarded, at least in most intellectual traditions, as the quintessential human attribute, at once evidence and source of most that is considered transcendent in us, distinguishing ours from the merely mechanical nature of the beast. Even if language did not have the sacrosanct status …
Aping Language
Av Joel Wallman
Häftad, 1992
670 kr
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Language is regarded, at least in most intellectual traditions, as the quintessential human attribute, at once evidence and source of most that is considered transcendent in us, distinguishing ours from the merely mechanical nature of the beast. Even if language did not have the sacrosanct status …
Old Age
Constructions and Deconstructions
Av Haim Hazan
Häftad, 1994
471 kr
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Haim Hazan is a leading specialist on old age in anthropology, and has published several books on particular communities of old people. The latest book is an essay on the realities of old age, as it is experienced, as opposed to the ideas about the old current in western societies. It argues that …
A Pack of Lies
Towards a Sociology of Lying
Av J. A. Barnes, Jack Goody m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
797 kr
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Defining lies as statements that are intended to deceive, this book considers the contexts in which people tell lies, how they are detected and sometimes exposed, and the consequences for the liars themselves, their dupes, and the wider society. The author provides examples from a number of …
The Economics of the Long Period
Häftad, 2022
502 kr
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This book provides a non-technical introduction to Unified Growth Theory (UGT), that is, the study of history as a succession of economic regimes. It first focuses on the canonical example of regime shift: the transition from the regime of Malthusian stagnation to the modern regime of sustained …
The Economics of the Long Period
Inbunden, 2022
1391 kr
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This book provides a non-technical introduction to Unified Growth Theory (UGT), that is, the study of history as a succession of economic regimes. It first focuses on the canonical example of regime shift: the transition from the regime of Malthusian stagnation to the modern regime of sustained …
