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Soviet and Western Anthropology / Ernest Gellner.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1980]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Studies the relevance of Soviet societal anthropology for its western counterparts with a basic framework of Marxism but also delves into the works of ethnographers, linguists, and demographers.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction / Fortes, Meyer
- Part I: Marxism, anthropology, history
- The emergence of Marxism in anthropology in France / Godelier, Maurice
- Historicism in Soviet ethnographic science / Petrova-Averkieva, Yu.
- The theory of socio-economic formations and world history / Semenov, Yu. I.
- A Russian Marxist philosophy of history / Gellner, E.
- Part II: The distinctiveness of the primitive
- Ethnographic reconstruction of the history of primitive society / Pershits, A. I.
- Hunters and gatherers today and reconstruction of the past / Woodburn, James
- Thought and writing / Goody, J.
- The origins of the state among the nomads of Asia / Krader, Lawrence
- Part ΙII: The distinctiveness of the contemporary world
- The object and the subject-matter of ethnography / Bromley, Yu.
- The place of 'ethnos' theory in Soviet anthropology / Dragadze, T.
- Ethnic sociology of present-day life / Drobizheva, L.
- The conceptual reappearance of peasantry in Anglo-Saxon social science / Shanin, T.
- Part IV: Anthropology and psychology
- Anthropology and the psychological disciplines / Fortes, Meyer
- Ethnography and psychology / Kon, I. S.
- The study of religions in Soviet ethnography / Basilov, V.
- Theories of North Asian shamanism / Humphrey, C.
- Part VI: Concepts and methods
- Ethnography and linguistics / Arutyonov, S.
- Ethnography and demography / Kozlov, V.l.
- Structure and structuralism / Pouillon, J.
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-231-89099-0
- OCLC:
- 1100431124
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