ORPP logo
Image from Google Jackets

The Voice of Prophecy : And Other Essays.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2016Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (388 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781785335570
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Voice of ProphecyDDC classification:
  • 306.44089
LOC classification:
  • P35.A734 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: No detailed description available for "The Voice of Prophecy".
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

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.

No detailed description available for "The Voice of Prophecy".

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

© 2024 Resource Centre. All rights reserved.