Ardener, Edwin.

The Voice of Prophecy : And Other Essays. - 2nd ed. - 1 online resource (388 pages)

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.

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9781785335570


Anthropological linguistics.
Ethnology.


Electronic books.

P35.A734 2018

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