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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 evidence, to replace
assertion by demonstration. Topics covered include: * Incest and
Adultery * Double descent systems * Inheritance, social change and
the boundary problem * Marriage policy * The circulation of women
and children in northern Ghana * Indo-European kinship. First
published in 1969.
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. Chapters include:
The Analysis of Ceremony and Rite The Day of Death Adjustment to
Loss Income and Outlay The Causes of Death Property Inheritance
Ancestors. First published in 1962.
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 evidence, to replace
assertion by demonstration. Topics covered include: * Incest and
Adultery * Double descent systems * Inheritance, social change and
the boundary problem * Marriage policy * The circulation of women
and children in northern Ghana * Indo-European kinship. First
published in 1969.
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 its broad outlines is
typical of the general area. Of particular theoretical interest,
however, is the co-existence in the one society of both patriclans
and matriclans and the way in which the Lo Wiili see themselves not
as a boundary-maintaining group ('tribe') but define themselves by
cultural criteria which are relative to the group with which they
are being compared. The study is also concerned with the
traditional role of the Earth Shrine in maintaining social control,
a widespread feature of West African societies.
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.
Creative Lives and Works: Adrian C. Mayer, M.N. Srinivas, Andre
Beteille 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, are part of a larger
set of interviews that cut across various disciplines, from the
social sciences, the sciences to the performing and visual arts.
The current volume, on four of the world's foremost social
anthropologists and sociologists, who have been closely associated
with the British anthropological tradition, is the third in the
series of several such books. These conversations focus primarily
on fieldwork experience in India and how new dimensions and
interpretations were added to the discipline of sociology and
social anthropology as more and more primitive cultures and ancient
civilizations were studied. This book brings out the diversity of
the Indian subcontinent and its people through its engaging
conversations and occasional anecdotes. Immensely riveting as
conversations, this collection gives one a flavour of the many
different cultures that coexist in a vast country like India, often
with no knowledge of each other's existence while de-jargonizing
complex sociological concepts. The book will be of enormous value
not just to those interested in the subject of Sociology, Social
Anthropology and Ethnography, but also those with an avid interest
in History, Culture Studies as well as those with an interest in
learning about other societies. Please note: This title is
co-published with Social Science Press, New Delhi. Taylor &
Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India,
Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
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 volume, are part of a larger
set of interviews that cut across various disciplines, from the
social sciences, the sciences to the performing and visual arts.
The current volume on five of England's foremost social
anthropologists is the second in the series of several such books.
These conversations and talks are interlaced with rich ethnography
and interpretations of distant civilizations and the very real
practices that enable these tribal societies and cultures to
thrive. There are several teaching moments in these engaging
conversations which are further enriched by detailed personal
experiences that each of the five shares. Sir Raymond Firth gives
us an insight into his Polynesian experience, while Audrey Richards
and Lucy Mair recall their days in the African hinterland. Meyer
Fortes's account of his tribal study, yet again in the African
subcontinent, is mesmeric, while Sir Edmund Leach's Southeast Asian
encounters are just as enthralling. Immensely riveting as
conversations, this collection gives one a flavour of how tribal
societies live and work. The book will be of enormous value not
just to those interested in learning about tribal societies and
cultures, and those interested in History, Culture Studies, but
also to those curious to gather knowledge about other cultures.
Please note: This title is co-published with Social Science Press,
New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the
Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri
Lanka.
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 its broad outlines is
typical of the general area. Of particular theoretical interest,
however, is the co-existence in the one society of both patriclans
and matriclans and the way in which the Lo Wiili see themselves not
as a boundary-maintaining group ('tribe') but define themselves by
cultural criteria which are relative to the group with which they
are being compared. The study is also concerned with the
traditional role of the Earth Shrine in maintaining social control,
a widespread feature of West African societies.
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. Differences in the
modes of agricultural production were connected with differences in
other aspects of the social system such as the relations between
subjects and chiefs. This means that comparisons with the feudal
systems of Western Europe or the monarchies of Asiatic states have
definite limitations. Differences in technology not only affected
not only the means of production but also of destruction. The
importance of differential access to the means of domination is
stressed as a critical factor in African political systems. This is
an aspect which has been obscured in many studies that have relied
largely on material gathered after the establishment of colonial
rule.
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 pre-industrial societies has a positive
role to play in contemporary social science.
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. Differences in the
modes of agricultural production were connected with differences in
other aspects of the social system such as the relations between
subjects and chiefs. This means that comparisons with the feudal
systems of Western Europe or the monarchies of Asiatic states have
definite limitations. Differences in technology not only affected
not only the means of production but also of destruction. The
importance of differential access to the means of domination is
stressed as a critical factor in African political systems. This is
an aspect which has been obscured in many studies that have relied
largely on material gathered after the establishment of colonial
rule.
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 pre-industrial societies has a positive
role to play in contemporary social science.
In The Theft of History Jack Goody builds on his own previous work
to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees
as the pervasive Eurocentric or occidentalist biases of so much
western historical writing, and the consequent 'theft' by the West
of the achievements of other cultures in the invention of (notably)
democracy, capitalism, individualism and love. Goody, one of the
world's most distinguished anthropologists, raises questions about
theorists, historians and methodology, and proposes a new
comparative approach to cross-cultural analysis which allows for
more scope in examining history than an East versus West style.
The development of romantic love, the evolution of national and
regional cuisines, the globalization of Chinese food, the histories
of various taboos on certain types of food and drink, the
uniqueness of the European family such are the fascinating and
diverse themes Goody addresses in Food and Love. Starting with a
sustained discussion of the debates on social development in the
thought of classic theorists as well as contemporary historical and
sociological notions of modernization, Goody goes on to tease out
the general historical processes embedded in the most intimate
recesses of our lives. In a final bracing section challenging
dominant relativist conceptions, Goody considers the difficulties
and complexities of cross cultural and comparative analysis, and he
picks apart the doubts involved in the very process of
representation and symbolic communication. Throughout this
collection, Goody demonstrates that the ethnocentricity of much of
Western scholarship has distorted not only the comprehension of the
East but also developments in the European past and present.
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 brings together some of
the most important essays written on these themes in the past half
century, representative of a lifetime of critical engagement and
research. In characteristically clear and accessible style, Jack
Goody addresses fundamental conceptual schemes underpinning modern
anthropology, providing potent critiques of current theoretical
trends. Drawing upon his highly influential work on the LoDagaa
myth of the Bagre, Goody challenges structuralist and functionalist
interpretations of oral 'literature', stressing the issues of
variation, imagination and creativity, and the problems of
methodology and analysis. These insightful, and at times
provocative, essays will stimulate fresh debate and prove
invaluable to students and teachers of social anthropology.
One of the most distinguished social scientists in the world
addresses one of the central historical questions of the past
millennium: does the European Renaissance deserve its unique status
at the very heart of our notions of modernity? Jack Goody
scrutinises the European model in relation to parallel renaissances
that have taken place in other cultural areas, primarily Islam and
China, and emphasises what Europe owed to non-European influences.
Renaissances continues that strand of historical analysis critical
of Eurocentrism that Goody has developed in recent works like The
East and the West (1996) or The Theft of History (2006). This book
is wide-ranging, powerful, deftly argued, and draws upon the
author's long experience of working in Africa and elsewhere. Not
since Toynbee in The Study of History has anybody attempted quite
what Jack Goody is undertaking in Renaissances, and the result is
as accessible as it is ambitious.
One of the most distinguished social scientists in the world
addresses one of the central historical questions of the past
millennium: does the European Renaissance deserve its unique status
at the very heart of our notions of modernity? Jack Goody
scrutinises the European model in relation to parallel renaissances
that have taken place in other cultural areas, primarily Islam and
China, and emphasises what Europe owed to non-European influences.
Renaissances continues that strand of historical analysis critical
of Eurocentrism that Goody has developed in recent works like The
East and the West (1996) or The Theft of History (2006). This book
is wide-ranging, powerful, deftly argued, and draws upon the
author's long experience of working in Africa and elsewhere. Not
since Toynbee in The Study of History has anybody attempted quite
what Jack Goody is undertaking in Renaissances, and the result is
as accessible as it is ambitious.
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 half of this collection, which
brings together his major writings on the Bedouin. These seminal
essays are not only of ethnographic interest. All Peters' work is
informed by a rigorous theoretical intelligence, and his analysis
of power in Bedouin society has fascinated many discerning social
scientists.
Professor Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend
further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the
pervasive eurocentric or occidentalist biases of so much western
historical writing. Goody also examines the consequent 'theft' by
the West of the achievements of other cultures in the invention of
(notably) democracy, capitalism, individualism, and love. The Theft
of History discusses a number of theorists in detail, including
Marx, Weber and Norbert Elias, and engages with critical admiration
western historians like Fernand Braudel, Moses Finlay and Perry
Anderson. Major questions of method are raised, and Goody proposes
a new comparative methodology for cross-cultural analysis, one that
gives a much more sophisticated basis for assessing divergent
historical outcomes, and replaces outmoded simple differences
between East and West. The Theft of History will be read by an
unusually wide audience of historians, anthropologists and social
theorists.
Among the Berti of Northern Darfur (Sudan), as among many Muslim
societies, the formal religious practices are predominantly the
concern of men, while local, unorthodox customary rituals are
performed mainly by women. It is usual to dismiss such local,
popular practices as pre-Islamic survivals, but Professor Holy
shows that the customary rituals constitute an integral part of the
religious system of the Berti. Carefully analysing the symbolic
statements made in Berti rituals, Professor Holy demonstrates that
the distinction between the two classes of rituals is an expression
of the gender relationships characteristic of the society. He also
examines the social distribution of knowledge about Islam, and
explains the role of the religious schools in sustaining religious
ideas. The work is not only an ethnographic study of ritual, belief
and gender in an African society. It also makes a significant
contribution to current anthropological discussion of the
interpretation and meaning of rituals and symbols.
Jack Goody's new book explores the history of social anthropology as an emergent discipline in the interwar years. It focuses on key practitioners, such as Malinowski and Fortes, and explores how far ideological approaches adopted by social anthropologists were defined by the institutions in which they developed, particularly in response to key issues of the time: colonialism, anti-Semitism and communism. Goody focuses on Britain and Africa, and draws on his own wide-ranging personal fieldwork experience.
Jack Goody's book explores the development of the discipline of
social anthropology through its key practitioners and how far its
concerns interacted with the political and ideological debate of
the interwar years. It is a study of the different ideological and
intellectual approaches adopted by the emerging subject of social
anthropology and how far these views were incorporated into and
defined by the structures and institutions in which they developed.
However it is also an analysis of how far the subject was created
by its own response to key issues of the time: colonialism -
specifically Africa, anti-Semitism and communism. Goody's approach
is characteristically personal: Malinowski dominates the
discussion, as well as Fortes, Radcliffe-Brown and Evans-Pritchard,
and his own experience, gathered over a wide-ranging life of
fieldwork informs the conclusion of the book.
Continuing the comparative survey of pre-industrial family formation undertaken in The Development of Family and Marriage in Europe (1983), Professor Goody looks in depth at kinship practice in Asia. His findings cause him to question many traditional assumptions about the "primitive" East, and he suggests that, in contrast to pre-colonial Africa, kinship practice in Asia has much in common with that prevailing in parts of pre-industrial Europe. Goody examines the transmission of productive and other property in relation both to the prevailing political economy and to family and ideological structures, and explores the distribution of mechanisms and strategies of management across cultures. The book concludes that notions of western "uniqueness" are often misplaced, and that much previous work on Asian kinship has been unwittingly distorted by the application of concepts and approaches derived from other, inappropriate, social formations.
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