The Voice of Prophecy : And Other Essays.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ardener, Edwin.

Contributor:

Chapman, Malcolm.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropological linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2016.

Summary:

Edwin Ardener - a new expanded edition of the collected works of one of the most important social anthroplogists in Britain 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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Edwin Ardener's Prophetic Vision

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Social Anthropology and Language

Chapter 2. The New Anthropology and its Critics

Chapter 3. Language, Ethnicity and Population

Chapter 4. Belief and the Problem of Women

Chapter 5. Some Outstanding Problems in the Analysis of Events

Chapter 6. 'Behaviour' - a Social Anthropological Criticism

Chapter 7. Social Anthropology and Population

Chapter 8. The 'Problem' Revisited

Chapter 9. The Voice of Prophecy: Further Problems in the Analysis of Events

Chapter 10. 'Social Fitness' and the Idea of 'Survival'

Chapter 11. Comprehending Others

Chapter 12. The Problem of Dominance

Chapter 13. Social Anthropology and the decline of Modernism

Chapter 14. 'Remote areas' - some Theoretical Considerations

Chapter 15. Witchcraft, Economics and the Continuity of Belief

Chapter 16. Social Anthropology and the Historicity of Historical Linguistics

Chapter 17. Edward Sapir, 1884-1939

Chapter 18. The Construction of History: 'Vestiges of Creation'

Postscript 1. The Prophetic Condition

Postscript 2. Towards a Rigorously Empirical Anthropology

Appendix: Edwin Ardener - a Bibliography

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-274) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-83695-991-5

1-78533-557-X

1-78533-769-6

OCLC:

1009303072