The Scope of Anthropology

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

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Produktbeschreibung

The volume brings together world-class scholars Sophisticated discussions of Maurice Godelier's work and approach The text contains theoretical propositions applicable in a wide scope of social sciences

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9781782385325
• ISBN-10: 1782385320
• Artikelnr.: 41270205

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