Building Social Worlds : Thinking Forwards with Esther Newcomb Goody.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bodenhorn, Barbara.

Contributor:

Fentiman, Alicia.

Goody, Mary.

Series:

WYSE Series in Social Anthropology Series

WYSE Series in Social Anthropology Series ; v.17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Goody, Esther N.

Women anthropologists--Biography.

Women anthropologists.

Kinship.

Educational anthropology.

Anthropology--Research.

Anthropology.

Genre:

Biographies

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2025.

Summary:

"Esther Newcomb Goody had an extensive academic career. She particularly revisited intellectual themes of kinship and relationships. This collection draws on ethnography across Africa, Europe, Oceania and the Americas, and uses Goody's ideas to expand their understanding of the nature of relationships, communication, intimacy, resistance and resilience with a particular focus on rich ethnographies of childhood and learning. It discusses a wide range of subjects in personhood and parenthood, fosterage, apprenticeship and modes of learning; kinship in historical perspective; power, politics and speech; the effects of late-modern capitalism on households and the complex relations between persons and things"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Building Social Worlds

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Sisters into Wives, Wives into Sisters

Chapter 2. Fragments of Intimacy and the Reassembling of Relations

Chapter 3. The Visible Invisibilities of the Circulation of Women in the Ottoman Mediterranean and Their Implications

Chapter 4. The Circulation of Women and Children - and Everybody Else - Half a Century Later

Chapter 5. Video, Voice and Vygotsky

Chapter 6. Lessons in Milking and Lessons in Maths

Chapter 7. Singing the Names

Chapter 8. 'One Snake is the Biggest in the Pond'

Chapter 9. Childrearing through Social Interaction on Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea

Conclusion

Afterword

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Appendix IV

Appendix V

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781805399537

1805399535

9781805399544

1805399543

OCLC:

1505733222