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Informationen zum Autor Bruce Kapferer is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bergen. He has held academic positions in Zambia, Manchester, Adelaide, London, and Queensland and carried out extensive fieldwork in Zambia, Sri Lanka, India, Australia, and South Africa. Klappentext The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily separated from larger political processes of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism - is one factor resulting in notions of the social and of society as becoming little else than empty shells of small or no analytical value.The essays presented here, all by leading anthropologists, take a variety of positions on the matter of the retreat of the social. All demonstrate that if anthropology and other social sciences are to fulfill the task of a critical understanding of the diverse realities in which we all must live, these disciplines will find it impossible to so do without a strong concept of the social. Zusammenfassung The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily separated from larger political processes of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism - is one factor resulting in notions of the social and of society as becoming little else than empty shells of small or no analytical value. The essays presented here, all by leading anthropologists, take a variety of positions on the matter of the retreat of the social. All demonstrate that if anthropology and other social sciences are to fulfill the task of a critical understanding of the diverse realities in which we all must live, these disciplines will find it impossible to so do without a strong concept of the social. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Social Construction of Reductionist Thought and Practice Bruce Kapferer Chapter 1. The Relocation of the Social and the Retrenchment of the Elites Jonathan Friedman Chapter 2. Legends of Fordism: Between Myth, History, and Foregone Conclusions George Baca Chapter 3. More Power to You, or Should It Be Less? Christopher C. Taylor Chapter 4. Methodological Individualism and Sociological Reductionism Roger Just Chapter 5. Reductionism and Misunderstanding Human Sociality Thomas Ernst Chapter 6. Theories and Ideologies in Anthropology Jukka Siikala Chapter 7. Death of the Indian Social Rohan Bastin Chapter 8. When Nothing Stands Outside the Self André Iteanu Chapter 9. From Bell Curve to Power Law: Distributional Models between National and World Society Keith Hart ...
