Edwin Ardener 
The Voice of Prophecy [EPUB ebook] 
And Other Essays

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Edwin Ardener – a new expanded edition of the collected works of one of the most important social anthroplogists in Britian of his time. Ardener worked on social, economic, demographic and political problems, and was particularly influential in his sustained effort to bring together social anthropology and linguistics in a highly original attempt to reconcile scientific and humanistic approaches to the study of society. This volume offers a theoretically and conceptually coherent body of work by this innovative and profound thinker, which will continue to excite and stimulate new generations of students and researchers as it has in the past.

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Foreword
Michael Herzfeld

Introduction
Malcolm Chapman

Acknowledgements

The Ardener Papers
Chapter 1. Social Anthropology and Language (with editorial preface)
Chapter 2. The New Anthropology and its Critics

Appendix

Chapter 3. Language, Ethnicity and Population
Chapter 4. Belief and the Problem of Women
Chapter 5. Some Outstanding Problems in the Analysis of Events
Chapter 6. ‘Behaviour’ – a Social Anthropological Criticism
Chapter 7. Social Anthropology and Population
Chapter 8. The ‘Problem’ Revisited
Chapter 9. The Voice of Prophecy
Chapter 10. ‘Social Fitness’ and the Idea of ‘Survival’
Chapter 11. Comprehending Others
Chapter 12. The Problem of Dominance
Chapter 13. Social Anthropology and the Decline of Modernism
Chapter 14. ‘Remote Areas’ – some Theoretical Considerations
Chapter 15. Witchcraft, Economics and the Continuity of Belief
Chapter 16. Social Anthropology and the Historicity of Historical Linguistics
Chapter 17. Edward Sapir, 1884-1939
Chapter 18. The Construction of History: ‘Vestiges of Creation’

Postscript I: The Prophetic Condition
Kirsten Hastrup

Postscript II: Towards a Rigorously Empirical Anthropology
Maryon Mc Donald

Appendix: Edwin Ardener – a Bibliography

Notes
References
Index

Tentang Penulis


Edwin Ardener (1927-1987) was a British social anthropologist and academic. He was also noted for his contributions to the study of history. Within anthropology, some of his most important contributions were to the study of gender. He also performed extensive fieldwork and wrote numerous works on Cameroon.

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