Edwin Ardener - a new expanded edition of the collected works of one of the most important social anthroplogists in Britian of his time. Ardener worked on social, economic, demographic and political problems, and was particularly influential in his sustained effort to bring together social anthropology and linguistics in a highly original attempt to reconcile scientific and humanistic approaches to the study of society. This volume offers a theoretically and conceptually coherent body of work by this innovative and profound thinker, which will continue to excite and stimulate new generations of students and researchers as it has in the past.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword – Edwin Ardener’s Prophetic Vision
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Social Anthropology and Language (with editorial preface)
- 2 The New Anthropology and its Critics
- 3 Language, Ethnicity and Population
- 4 Belief and the Problem of Women
- 5 Some Outstanding Problems in the Analysis of Events
- 6 ‘Behaviour’ – a Social Anthropological Criticism
- 7 Social Anthropology and Population
- 8 The ‘Problem’ Revisited
- 9 The Voice of Prophecy – Further Problems in the Analysis of Events
- 10 ‘Social Fitness’ and the Idea of ‘Survival’
- 11 Comprehending Others
- 12 The Problem of Dominance
- 13 Social Anthropology and the decline of Modernism
- 14 ‘Remote areas’ – some Theoretical Considerations
- 15 Witchcraft, Economics and the Continuity of Belief
- 16 Social Anthropology and the Historicity of Historical Linguistics
- 17 Edward Sapir, 1884–1939
- 18 The Construction of History ‘Vestiges of Creation’
- Postscript 1 The Prophetic Condition by Kirsten Hastrup
- Postscript 2 Towards a Rigorously Empirical Anthropology by Maryon McDonald
- Appendix: Edwin Ardener – a Bibliography
- Notes
- References
- Index
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