When history accelerates : essays on rapid social change, complexity, and creativity

Author(s)

• Hann, C. M.

Bibliographic Information

When history accelerates : essays on rapid social change, complexity, and creativity

edited by C.M. Hann

Athlone Press, 1994

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Rapid and complex social change over the short-term is now an area of concern to social scientists. This book focuses upon a number of specific instances of such acceleration in different parts of the world - including Russia, Iran, South Africa and Turkey. It examines some of the theoretical issues involved in the ideas of social change and transformation, and the methods for their study. Hann's previous publications include "Tea and the Domestication of the Turkish State" (1990), "Market Economy and Civil Society in Hungary" (1990) and "Socialism: Ideals, Ideologies and Local Practice" (1993).

Table of Contents

• Fast forward - the great transformation globalized, C.M. Hann
• the evolution of society - a Darwinian appoach, Krishan Kumar
• rates of change - weasel words and the indispensible in anthropological analysis, Roy Ellen
• modelling complexity and change - social knowledge and social process, Michael D. Fischer
• social creativity, J. Davis
• rustic chivalry - variations in honour ideologies in Italy and the limits of historical explanation, Nevill Colclough
• meanings, myths and mystifications - the social construction of life stories in Russia, Ray Pahl and Paul Thompson
• "And who now plans its future?" - land in South Africa after apartheid, Henry Bernstein
• change, cognition and control - the reconstruction of nomadism in Iran, Richard Tapper
• creating law - trade, production and accelerating change in late Ottoman Ismir, June Starr
• the new circle of equity, Ernest Gellner
• social change and culture - responses to modernization in an Alevi village in Anatolia, David Shankland
• negotiating ethnographic reality - team-fieldwork in Turkey, Emine Onaran Incirlioglu
• social standards and social thought, Alan Rew
• the application of anthropology in Britain 1983-1993, R.D. Grillo
• list of contributors.

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Details

• NCID: BA24372149
• ISBN:
  • 9780485114645
• LCCN: 94037292
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: x, 325 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HN16
  • DC20 : 303.4
  • NDC6 : 361.3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Social change -- Case studies