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When History Accelerates
Essays on Rapid Social Change, Complexity and Creativity
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About this book
Rapid and complex social change is of urgent concern to all human societies, but how can researchers do justice both to the objective complexities of causal relations and to subjective experiences of different types of change? The present volume focuses upon cases of 'accelerating change' – including Russia, Iran, South Africa and Turkey – and examines some of the theoretical issues involved in conceptualizing social change and transformation and the methods for their study.
The fifteen essays in this collection will be of interest to all students of history and the social sciences; and especially to students of social anthropology, sociology and development studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- 1 Fast Forward: The Great Transformation Globalized
- 2 The Evolution of Society: A Darwinian Approach
- 3 Rates of Change: Weasel Words and the Indispensable in Anthropological Analysis
- 4 Modelling Complexity and Change: Social Knowledge and Social Process
- 5 Social Creativity
- 6 Rustic Chivalry: Variations in Honour Ideologies in Italy and the Limits of Historical Explanation
- 7 Meanings, Myths and Mystifications: The Social Construction of Life Stories in Russia
- 8 'And Who Now Plans Its Future?': Land in South Africa after Apartheid
- 9 Change, Cognition and Control: The Reconstruction of Nomadism in Iran
- 10 Creating Law: Trade, Production and Accelerating Change in Late Ottoman Izmir
- 11 The New Circle of Equity
- 12 Social Change and Culture: Responses to Modernization in an Alevi Village in Anatolia
- 13 Negotiating Ethnographic Reality: Team Fieldwork in Turkey Emine Onaran Incirlioglu
- 14 Social Standards and Social Thought
- 15 The Application of Anthropology in Britain, 1983-1993
- Index