The Scope of Anthropology (eBook, ePUB)

Maurice Godelier's Work in Context
Redaktion: Dousset, Laurent; Tcherkézoff, Serge

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists have come together in this volume to discuss Maurice Godelier's work. They explore and revisit some of the highly complex practices and structures social scientists encounter in their fieldwork. From the nature-culture debate to the fabrication of hereditary political systems, from transforming gender relations to the problems of the Christianization of indigenous peoples, these chapters demonstrate both the diversity of anthropological topics and the opportunity for constructive dialogue around shared methodological and theoretical models.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857453327
• Artikelnr.: 39597639

Autorenporträt

Serge Tcherkézoff is Professor of Anthropology at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris-Marseille. With Maurice Godelier and Pierre Lemonnier, he founded the CREDO (Centre for Research and Documentation on Oceania), a research unit member of CNRS, EHESS and the University of Provence and is currently organising an EHESS Branch at the Australian National University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures
Introduction
Laurent Dousset and Serge Tcherkézoff
Chapter 1. Some Things You Say, Some Things You Dissimulate, and Some
Things You Keep To Yourself: Linguistic and Material Exchange in the
Construction of Melanesian Societies
Joel Robbins
Chapter 2. The Enigma of Christian Conversion: Exchange and the Emergence
of New Great Men among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea
John Barker
Chapter 3. Alienating the Inalienable: Marriage and Money in a Big-man
Society
Polly Wiessner
Chapter 4. Anthropology and the Future of Sexuality Studies: An Essay in
Honour of Maurice Godelier
Gilbert Herdt
Chapter 5. Material and Immaterial Relations: Gender, Rank and Christianity
in Vanuatu
Margaret Jolly
Chapter 6. The Making of Chiefs: Hereditary Succession, Personal Agency and
Exchange in North Mekeo Chiefdoms
Mark S. Mosko
Chapter 7. What is left out in Kinship
Robert H. Barnes
Chapter 8. Maurice Godelier and the Asiatic Mode
Jack Goody
Chapter 9. The Dialectic of Cosmopolitanization and Indigenization in the
Contemporary World System: Contradictory Configurations of Class and
Culture
Jonathan Friedman
Publications by Maurice Godelier
Notes on the Contributors
Index