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The voice of prophecy and other essays

Edwin Ardener and Malcolm Chapman 2007 © Berghahn Books
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  • 9781845453312 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Gender Studies
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword (by Michael Herzfeld, page vii)
  • Introduction (by Malcolm Chapman, page xv)
  • Acknowledgements (page xxxvii)
  • 1. Social Anthropology and Language (with editorial preface) (page 1)
  • 2. The New Anthropology and its Critics (page 45)
  • 3. Language, Ethnicity and Population (page 65)
  • 4. Belief and the Problem of Women (page 72)
  • 5. Some Outstanding Problems in the Analysis of Events (page 86)
  • 6. 'Behaviour' - a Social Anthropological Criticism (page 105)
  • 7. Social Anthropology and Population (page 109)
  • 8. The 'Problem' Revisited (page 127)
  • 9. The Voice of Prophecy (page 134)
  • 10. 'Social Fitness' and the Idea of 'Survival' (page 155)
  • 11. Comprehending Others (page 159)
  • 12. The Problem of Dominance (page 186)
  • 13. Social Anthropology and the Decline of Modernism (page 191)
  • 14. 'Remote Areas' - some Theoretical Considerations (page 211)
  • Postscript 1 - The Prophetic Condition (by Kirsten Hastrup, page 224)
  • Postscript 2 - Towards a Rigorously Empirical Anthropology (by Maryon McDonald, page 229)
  • Edwin Ardener - a Bibliography (page 232)
  • Notes (page 236)
  • References (page 257)
  • Index (page 275)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AANTH 93.4 (Dec. 1991): 972-973 http://www.jstor.org/stable/680996
JRAI 15.1 (Mar. 2009): 180-181 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20527648
CANTH 27.3 (2007/2008): 83-86 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23820700
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