Jack Goody

Changing Social Structure in Ghana

Essays in the Comparative Sociology of a new State and an old Tradition

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1975, this book presents the results of research into social change in Ghana. The book looks in detail at the problems of particular sub-groups and sectors in one single nation and they show that the field-worker with a wide comparative background in the range of pre-industrial societies has a positive role to play in contemporary social science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9781138594128
• ISBN-10: 1138594121
• Artikelnr.: 69899359

Autorenporträt

Sir John Rankine Goody, FBA (27 July 1919 - 16 July 2015) was a British social anthropologist. He was a prominent lecturer at Cambridge University, and was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology from 1973 to 1984.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Economics 1. Swindler or Public Benefactor? The Entrepreneur in His
Community Keith Hart 2. The Growth of a Migrant Community: The Yoruba in
Northern Ghana Jeremy Eades 3. The Effects of Cash Crops in an Ewe
Community G. K. Nukunya 4. Female Roles in West African Towns Margaret Peil
Part 2: Religion 1. Religion, Social Change and the Sociology of Conversion
Jack Goody 2. On the Spread of Anti-Witchcraft Cults in Modern Asante
Malcolm McLeod Part 3: Kinship 1. The West African Farming Household 2.
Delegation of Parental Roles in West Africa and the West Indies Esther N.
Goody 3. Economics and Kinship in Multi-Ethnic Dwellings Enid Schildkrout
4. A Study of Domestic Continuity and Change: Akan Senior Service Families
in Accra Christine Oppong 5. Resettlement and Rehousing: Unintended
Consequences Among the Nchumuru Part 4: Education 1. The Village School
Teacher in Ghana A. F. Robertson