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Informationen zum Autor David R. Olson, Michael Cole Klappentext Inspired by the seminal work of Jack Goody! a historical anthropologist specializing in the study of social structure and change! this book gathers diverse perspectives of 20 distinguished historians! anthropologists! psychologists! and educators to address the role of technologies in social stability and change in traditional and modern societies. Zusammenfassung Inspired by the seminal work of Jack Goody, a historical anthropologist specializing in the study of social structure and change, Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society gathers diverse perspectives of distinguished historians, anthropo Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface: Technology and Social Change. Part I: Introduction. R. Langlois, An Introduction to Jack Goody's Historical Anthropology. Part II: Historical Anthropology: Kinship, Inheritance, and the State. K. Hart, Agrarian Civilization and Modern World Society. P. Ebrey, Succession to High Office: The Chinese Case. C. Hann, Between East and West: Greek Catholic Icons and Cultural Boundaries. E. Hobsbawm, Culture and Gender in European Bourgeois Society 1870-1914. M. Bloch, D. Sperber, Kinship and Evolved Psychological Dispositions: The Mother's Brother Controversy Reconsidered. G.E.R. Llyod, The Use and Abuse of Classification. J-C. Schmitt, Images in Flowers. Part III: Orality, Literacy, and Written Culture. G. Hawthorn, Orality in Politics. S. Hawkins, Writing and Kinship in Northern Ghana: From Cowry Payments to Paper Documents. C. Bazerman, The Writing of Social Organization and the Literate Situating of Cognition: Extending Goody's Social Implications of Writing. E.N. Goody, Dynamics of the Emergence of Sociocultural Institutional Practices. R. Finnegan, Not by Worlds Alone: Reclothing the "Oral". D.R. Olson, The Documentary Tradition in Mind and Society. M. Cole, J. Cole, Rethinking the Goody Myth. Bibliography of Jack Goody's Work. ...
