Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword – Edwin Ardener’s Prophetic Vision vii
4. Introduction xv
5. Acknowledgements xxxvii
6. 1 Social Anthropology and Language (with editorial preface) 1
7. 2. The New Anthropology and its Critics 45
8. 3 Language, Ethnicity and Population 65
9. 4 Belief and the Problem of Women 72
10. 5 Some Outstanding Problems in the Analysis of Events 86
11. 6 ‘Behaviour’ – a Social Anthropological Criticism 105
12. 7 Social Anthropology and Population 109
13. 8 The ‘Problem’ Revisited 127
14. 9 The Voice of Prophecy – Further Problems in the Analysis of Events 134
15. 10 ‘Social Fitness’ and the Idea of ‘Survival’ 155
16. 11 Comprehending Others 159
17. 12 The Problem of Dominance 186
18. 13 Social Anthropology and the decline of Modernism 191
19. 14 ‘Remote Areas’ – some Theoretical Considerations 211
20. 15 Witchcraft, Economics and the Continuity of Belief 224
21. 16 Social Anthropology and the Historicity of Historical Linguistics 236
22. 17 Edward Sapir, 1884–1939 255
23. 18 The Construction of History: ‘Vestiges of Creation’ 264
24. Postscript 1 – The Prophetic Condition 274
25. Postscript 2 – Towards a Rigorously Empirical Anthropology 279
26. Appendix: Edwin Ardener – a Bibliography 282
27. Notes 286
28. References 315
29. Index 337