Building Social Worlds
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Building Social Worlds

Thinking forwards with Esther Newcomb Goody

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eBook - ePub

Building Social Worlds

Thinking forwards with Esther Newcomb Goody

About this book

Esther Newcomb Goody had an extensive academic career. She particularly revisited intellectual themes of kinship and relationships. This collection draws on ethnography across Africa, Europe, Oceania and the Americas, and uses Goody's ideas to expand contributors understanding of the nature of relationships, communication, intimacy, resistance and resilience with a particular focus on rich ethnographies of childhood and learning. It discusses a wide range of subjects in personhood and parenthood, fosterage, apprenticeship and modes of learning; kinship in historical perspective; power, politics and speech; the effects of late-modern capitalism on households and the complex relations between persons and things.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction. Going Against the Grain, Again
  9. Chapter 1. Sisters into Wives, Wives into Sisters
  10. Chapter 2. Fragments of Intimacy and the Reassembling of Relations
  11. Chapter 3. The Visible Invisibilities of the Circulation of Women in the Ottoman Mediterranean and Their Implications
  12. Chapter 4. The Circulation of Women and Children – and Everybody Else – Half a Century Later
  13. Chapter 5. Video, Voice and Vygotsky: Narratives of Learning among the Konkomba of Northern Ghana
  14. Chapter 6. Lessons in Milking and Lessons in Maths: A Case Study of Andean Children in Colombia
  15. Chapter 7. Singing the Names: Custom and Chronology in Mamprusi Drum Histories
  16. Chapter 8. ‘One Snake is the Biggest in the Pond’: Linguistic Fragments from Mambila Funerals as Evidence for Religious Change
  17. Chapter 9. Childrearing through Social Interaction on Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea
  18. Conclusion
  19. Afterword
  20. Appendix I. Esther N. Goody: Unpublished Notes
  21. Appendix II. Jean La Fontaine: A Memory of Esther Goody
  22. Appendix III. Interview with Suzanne Hoelgaard
  23. Appendix IV. Selected Tributes
  24. Appendix V. Esther N. Goody: Bibliography
  25. Index