The Voice of Prophecy
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The Voice of Prophecy

And Other Essays

  1. 326 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Voice of Prophecy

And Other Essays

About this book

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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Information

Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781785337697
eBook ISBN
9781785335570

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Edwin Ardener's Prophetic Vision
  3. Introduction
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Chapter 1. Social Anthropology and Language
  6. Chapter 2. The New Anthropology and its Critics
  7. Chapter 3. Language, Ethnicity and Population
  8. Chapter 4. Belief and the Problem of Women
  9. Chapter 5. Some Outstanding Problems in the Analysis of Events
  10. Chapter 6. 'Behaviour' – a Social Anthropological Criticism
  11. Chapter 7. Social Anthropology and Population
  12. Chapter 8. The 'Problem' Revisited
  13. Chapter 9. The Voice of Prophecy: Further Problems in the Analysis of Events
  14. Chapter 10. 'Social Fitness' and the Idea of 'Survival'
  15. Chapter 11. Comprehending Others
  16. Chapter 12. The Problem of Dominance
  17. Chapter 13. Social Anthropology and the decline of Modernism
  18. Chapter 14. 'Remote areas' – some Theoretical Considerations
  19. Chapter 15. Witchcraft, Economics and the Continuity of Belief
  20. Chapter 16. Social Anthropology and the Historicity of Historical Linguistics
  21. Chapter 17. Edward Sapir, 1884–1939
  22. Chapter 18. The Construction of History: 'Vestiges of Creation'
  23. Postscript 1. The Prophetic Condition
  24. Postscript 2. Towards a Rigorously Empirical Anthropology
  25. Appendix: Edwin Ardener – a Bibliography
  26. Notes
  27. References
  28. Index