Adam Kuper

The Reinvention of Primitive Society (eBook, ePUB)

Transformations of a Myth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rev. ed. of: The invention of primitive society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134247202
• Artikelnr.: 42636517

Autorenporträt

Adam Kuper is Professor of Anthropology at Brunel University, UK and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of a number of books, including The Chosen Primate: Human Nature and Cultural Diversity (Harvard 1994), Anthropologists and Anthropology: The Modern British School, third edition (Routledge 1996) and Culture: The Anthropologists' Account (Harvard 1999). The founding president of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, he ws for many years editor of Current Anthropology, and is co-editor of The Social Science Encyclopedia, third edition (Routledge 2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part 1:The idea of primitive society 1. The myth of primitive
society 2. Barbarian, Savage, Primitive Part 2: Ancient law, ancient
society and totemism 3. Henry Maine's patriarchal theory 4. Lewis Henry
Morgan and ancient society 5. The question of totemism Part 3: Evolution
and diffusion: Boas, Rivers and Radcliffe-Brown 6. The Boasians and the
critique of evolutionism 7. From Rivers to Radcliffe-Brown Part 4: Descent
and Alliance 8. Descent theory: a phoenix from the ashes 9. Towards the
intellect: Alliance theory and totemism Part 5: Back to the beginning 10.
The return of the native 11. Conclusion References Index