Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxvi, 288 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Revised edition
ISBN:
9781785335570
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178533557X
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-274) and index
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1. Social anthropology and language (with editorial preface) -- 2. The new anthropology and its critics -- 3. Language, ethnicity and population -- 4. Belief and the problem of women -- 5. Some outstanding problems in the analysis of events -- 6. 'Behaviour' : a social anthropological criticism -- 7. Social anthropology and population -- 8. The 'problem' revisited -- 9. The voice of prophecy -- 10. 'Social fitness' and the idea of 'survival' -- 11. Comprehending others -- 12. The problem of dominance -- 13. Social anthropology and the decline of modernism -- 14. 'Remote area' : some theoretical consideration -- Postscript 1. The prophetic condition / Kirsten Hastrup -- Postscript 2. Towards a rigorously empirical anthropology / Maryon McDonald -- Edwin Ardener : a bibliography.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781785337697
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1785337696
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ardener, Edwin Voice of prophecy and other essays New York : Berghahn Books, 2007 ISBN 184545331X
Language:
English
