The voice of prophecy and other essays
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The voice of prophecy and other essays
Blackwell, 1989
- pbk.
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Bibliography: p [257]-274
Includes index
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Description
Edwin Ardener was a social anthropologist known for his work on social, economic, demographic and political problems and his sustained effort to bring together social anthropology and linguistics in an attempt to reconcile scientific and humanistic approaches to the study of man. The aim of this volume is to to bring together the best of Ardener's papers since 1971, which have until now been scattered in various publications or have remained unpublished. These papers demonstrate how social anthropology and linguistics are transformed by their mutual contact. The compilation and editing of the book was completed after Edward Ardener's death in 1987 by his student and colleague Malcolm Chapman, who has contributed a biographical and critical introduction and a complete bibliography of Ardener's writings.
Table of Contents
- Social anthropology and language
- the new anthropology and its critics
- language, ethnicity and population
- belief and the problem of women
- some outstanding problems in the analysis of events
- behaviour - a social anthropological criticism
- social anthropology and population
- the problems of women revisited
- the voice of prophecy
- time
- space-time
- world-structure and definition space
- "social fitness" and the idea of "survival"
- comprehending others - ethnology and language
- social anthropology, language and reality
- total translation
- the problem of dominance
- social anthropology and the decline of modernism
- "remote areas" - some theoretical considerations.
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