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La Production Du Corps - Approches anthropologiques et historiques (Paperback): Maurice Godelier, Michel Panoff La Production Du Corps - Approches anthropologiques et historiques (Paperback)
Maurice Godelier, Michel Panoff
R1,188 Discovery Miles 11 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Big Men and Great Men - Personifications of Power in Melanesia (Paperback): Maurice Godelier, Marilyn Strathern Big Men and Great Men - Personifications of Power in Melanesia (Paperback)
Maurice Godelier, Marilyn Strathern
R1,145 Discovery Miles 11 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The societies of Melanesia have been a constant stimulus to anthropological theory. In this collection of essays, anthropologists who have worked in all parts of the Melanesian region of the Pacific bring their expertise to bear on a single theoretical issue. This is a hypothesis formulated by Maurice Godelier concerning the relationship between power, kinship and wealth. Although tightly focused on Godelier's work, the book opens up a major enquiry into the constitution of society in a part of the world where men of prominence come to personify the nature of power. 'Big men', entrepreneurs of exchanges, and 'great men', who flourish in societies characterised by restricted exchanges and ritual complexity, appear to belong to quite different systems. This book considers how substantial the difference between them really is.

The Metamorphoses of Kinship (Paperback): Maurice Godelier The Metamorphoses of Kinship (Paperback)
Maurice Godelier; Translated by Nora Scott
R961 Discovery Miles 9 610 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

With marriage in decline, divorce on the rise and the demise of the nuclear family, it is clear that the structures of kinship in the modern West are in a state of flux. In The Metamorphoses of Kinship, the world-renowned anthropologist Maurice Godelier contextualises these developments, surveying the accumulated experience of humanity with regard to such phenomena as the organisation of lines of descent, sexuality and sexual prohibitions. In parallel, Godelier studies the evolution of Western conjugal and familial traditions from their roots in the nineteenth century to the present. The conclusion he draws is that it is never the case that a man and a woman are sufficient on their own to raise a child, and nowhere are relations of kinship or the family the keystone of society.

The Imagined, the Imaginary and the Symbolic (Paperback): Maurice Godelier The Imagined, the Imaginary and the Symbolic (Paperback)
Maurice Godelier
R2,045 Discovery Miles 20 450 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Levi-Strauss held that "the real, the symbolic and the imaginary" are three separate orders. Maurice Godelier demonstrates the contrary: the real is not separate from the symbolic and the imaginary. Godelier's book goes to the strategic heart of the social sciences, for to examine the nature and role of the imaginary and the symbolic is also to attempt to account for the basic components of all societies and ultimately of human existence. And these aspects in turn shape our social and personal identity.

The Making of Great Men - Male Domination and Power among the New Guinea Baruya (Paperback): Maurice Godelier The Making of Great Men - Male Domination and Power among the New Guinea Baruya (Paperback)
Maurice Godelier; Translated by Rupert Swyer
R1,236 Discovery Miles 12 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Baruya are a tribal society in highlands Papua New Guinea, with whom Western contact was first made in 1951. During the last twenty years, Maurice Godelier has spent many long periods of time living among this people, and in this book he presents a detailed account of their lives and their forms of social organization. The focus of the book is on inequality and power in this classless society. Godelier discusses both the power that certain men (the Great men) have over others through their control of war, shamanism, hunting, and rites of initiation, as well as the extraordinary power and domination that men in general exert over women. He explores how this domination is produced and maintained, examining it in particular through a detailed study of male and female initiation. He also analyzes the role that sexuality plays in Baruya thought and theories, showing that in the Baruya view, every aspect of domination - be it (in Western categorization) economic, political, or symbolic - can be explained by sexuality, and the different role of the sexes in human reproduction. A major contribution both to the ethnography of Melanesia and to anthropological theory, the book will interest scholars and students of anthropology, as well as other readers interested in power and inequality, and in the relationships between the sexes.

Forbidden Fruit - An Anthropologist Looks at Incest (Paperback): Maurice Godelier Forbidden Fruit - An Anthropologist Looks at Incest (Paperback)
Maurice Godelier; Translated by Nora Scott
R290 R260 Discovery Miles 2 600 Save R30 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

What is incest? Is it universally prohibited? Does this prohibition concern only "biological" kinships or does it extend to various "social" kinships, such as those that are formed today in so-called blended families but which also exist in many other societies? This prohibition plays a fundamental role in the functioning of the multiple kinship systems studied throughout the world. But where does it come from? Can we think, with Claude Lévi-Strauss, that the prohibition of incest alone marks the passage from nature to culture? And how can we understand, then, the persistent tension between the proclaimed, institutionalized prohibition and the incestuous practice which, everywhere, remains? World-renowned anthropologist Maurice Godelier highlights an essential fact, the spontaneously asocial and undifferentiated character of human sexuality and the need for a social regulation of this spontaneity. It thus brings to light the main teachings of anthropology on the question of incest, a major social fact of burning relevance today.

Un Domaine Conteste - L'Anthropologie Economique (French, Hardcover, Reprint 2021 ed.): Maurice Godelier Un Domaine Conteste - L'Anthropologie Economique (French, Hardcover, Reprint 2021 ed.)
Maurice Godelier
R3,321 Discovery Miles 33 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Claude Levi-Strauss - A Critical Study of His Thought (Paperback): Maurice Godelier Claude Levi-Strauss - A Critical Study of His Thought (Paperback)
Maurice Godelier
R909 R810 Discovery Miles 8 100 Save R99 (11%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss was among the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In this rigorous study, Maurice Godelier traces the evolution of his thought. Focusing primarily on Levi-Strauss's analysis of kinship and myth, Godelier provides an assessment of his intellectual achievements and legacy. Meticulously researched, Levi-Strauss is written in a clear and accessible style. The culmination of decades of engagement with Levi-Strauss's work, this book will prove indispensible to students of his thought and structural anthropology more generally.

The Mental and the Material - Thought Economy and Society (Paperback, 2nd edition): Maurice Godelier The Mental and the Material - Thought Economy and Society (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Maurice Godelier; Translated by Martin Thom
R605 R534 Discovery Miles 5 340 Save R71 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What is the specificity of the human race within nature? How is its history to be explained? What impact do material realities, natural and man-made, have on human beings? What role does thought, in all its dimensions, play in the production of social relations? How are the human sciences to be advanced today? These are among the crucial questions confronted by Godelier in this key book of contemporary social theory. Its point of departure lies in a fact and a hypothesis. The fact: in contrast to other social animals, human beings do not just live in society; they produce society in order to live. The hypothesis: because they have the unique capacity to appropriate and transform nature, they produce culture and create history.

Drawing on his own extensive fieldwork and ranging over the most diverse ethnographic data, Godelier substantiates his case by attending to the analysis of both social relations of production and the production of social relations. In a sustained challenge to currently dominant schemas, he offers a series of highly original theses on the constitution, reproduction and transformation of societies, recasting the distinction between infrastructure and superstructures, illuminating the relations between economic determination and political/ideological dominance, and clarifying the character of ideology and its central role in the perpetuation of dominance and exploitation.

Claude Levi-Strauss - A Critical Study of His Thought (Hardcover): Maurice Godelier Claude Levi-Strauss - A Critical Study of His Thought (Hardcover)
Maurice Godelier
R2,045 R1,242 Discovery Miles 12 420 Save R803 (39%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

One of the world's leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropology As a young man, Maurice Godelier was Claude Levi-Strauss's assistant. Since then, Godelier has drawn on this experience to develop a profound and intimate grasp on the writings of his former teacher, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Meticulously researched, Levi-Strauss: A Critical Study of His Thought will prove indispensable to students of Levi-Strauss and to structural anthropologists more generally. It is a compelling and comprehensive study destined to become the definitive work on the evolution of Levi-Strauss's ideas, at the heart of which lies his analysis of kinship and myth.

In and Out of the West - Reconstructing Anthropology (Hardcover): Maurice Godelier In and Out of the West - Reconstructing Anthropology (Hardcover)
Maurice Godelier; Translated by Nora Scott
R1,251 Discovery Miles 12 510 Out of stock

Is anthropology simply a continuation of colonial domination and cultural imperialism by other means, or has it--since its nineteenth-century rebirth as a purportedly scientific discipline--produced reliable knowledge about the cultures it studies? Is anthropology a mirror--which reflects only the preoccupations of the (Western) anthropologist--or a window, through which it is possible to see, though not with the same eyes as their members, other cultures?

Deriving from the 2002 Page-Barbour Lectures delivered by the French anthropologist Maurice Godelier at the University of Virginia, and supplemented by additional lectures and articles by the author, In and Out of the West addresses a series of fundamental topics and issues in social anthropology--including family, kinship, and the construction of the self. He particularly emphasizes the strategic role of political-religious relations in the construction of societies and social life.

Godelier places social anthropology in its historical perspective, with its origins in the West and, more particularly, colonialism, while also arguing that it has to some extent transcended its origins, achieving a measure of scientific objectivity and validity that cannot be reduced to a continuation of the colonial project. A final chapter, reflecting his experience as the first head of the science department of the new Quai Branly anthropological museum in Paris, discusses issues surrounding the presentation of nonwestern cultural artifacts to a Western general public.

Values and Valuables - From the Sacred to the Symbolic (Paperback): Cynthia Werner, Duran Bell Values and Valuables - From the Sacred to the Symbolic (Paperback)
Cynthia Werner, Duran Bell; Contributions by Maurice Godelier, James A. Egan, Fran coise Dussart, …
R1,501 Discovery Miles 15 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this exciting new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology, Cynthia Werner and Duran Bell bring together a group of distinguished anthropologists and economists to discuss the complex ways in which different cultures imbue material objects with symbolic qualities whose value cannot be reduced to material or monetary equivalents. Objects with sacred or symbolic qualities are valued quite differently than mundane objects, and the contributors to this volume set out to unravel how and why. In the first of three sections, the authors consider the extent to which sacred objects can or cannot be exchanged between individuals (e.g., ancestral objects, land, dreaming stories). In the next section, contributors discuss the value and power of markets, money, and credit. They consider theoretical models for understanding money transactions, competing currencies, and the power of credit among marginalized groups around the globe. The last section examines the ways in which contemporary people bestow symbolic value on some objects (e.g., family heirlooms, pre-Columbian artifacts, fashion goods) and finally how some individuals themselves are valued in monetary and symbolic ways. With its emphasis on the interplay of cultural and economic values, this volume will be a vital resource for economists and economic anthropologists. Published in cooperation with the Society for Economic Anthropology. Visit their web page.

The Enigma of the Gift (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Maurice Godelier The Enigma of the Gift (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Maurice Godelier
R1,014 Discovery Miles 10 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When we think of giving gifts, we think of exchanging objects that carry with them economic or symbolic value. But is every valuable thing a potentially exchangeable item, whose value can be transferred? In "The Enigma of the Gift," the distinguished French anthropologist Maurice Godelier reassesses the significance of gifts in social life by focusing on sacred objects, which are never exchanged despite the value they possess.
Beginning with an analysis of the seminal work of Marcel Mauss and Claude Levi-Strass, and drawing on his own fieldwork in Melanesia, Godelier argues that traditional theories are flawed because they consider only exchangeable gifts. By explaining gift-giving in terms of sacred objects and the authoritative conferral of power associated with them, Godelier challenges both recent and traditional theories of gift-giving, provocatively refreshing a traditional debate.
Elegantly translated by Nora Scott, "The Enigma of the Gift" is at once a major theoretical contribution and an essential guide to the history of the theory of the gift.

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