Arpad Szakolczai, Bjørn Thomassen

From Anthropology to Social Theory

Rethinking the Social Sciences

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A rethinking of contemporary social theory that provides a vision about the modern world through key ideas developed by 'maverick' anthropologists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 149mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 433g
• ISBN-13: 9781108438384
• ISBN-10: 1108438385
• Artikelnr.: 53448511

Autorenporträt

Arpad Szakolczai is Professor of Sociology at University College Cork. His recent books include Comedy and the Public Sphere (2013), Permanent Liminality and Modernity (2017), and Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking (with Agnes Horvath, 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: rethinking social theory with anthropology
Part I. Maverick Anthropologists: 1. Arnold van Gennep: liminal rites and the rhythms of life
2. Gabriel Tarde and René Girard: imitation and the foundations of social life
3. Marcel Mauss: from sacrifice to gift-giving or revisiting foundations
4. Lucien Lévy-Bruhl and Colin Turnbull: participation, experience, and home
5. Paul Radin: the trickster
6. Gregory Bateson and Johan Huizinga: Schismogenesis and play
7. Victor Turner: liminal experiences as the grounding of social theory
Part II. Rethinking Modernity and Its Sociology: 8. A reflexive political anthropology of sociology
9. A reflexive political anthropology of modernity.