The Scope of Anthropology: Maurice Godelier’s Work in Context

Published by Berghahn Books 2012

The Scope of Anthropology

Maurice Godelier’s Work in Context

Edited by: Laurent Dousset and Serge Tcherkézoff

Volume 23 in the series Methodology & History in Anthropology

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857453327

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About this book

Some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists have come together in this volume to discuss Maurice Godelier’s work. They explore and revisit some of the highly complex practices and structures social scientists encounter in their fieldwork. From the nature–culture debate to the fabrication of hereditary political systems, from transforming gender relations to the problems of the Christianization of indigenous peoples, these chapters demonstrate both the diversity of anthropological topics and the opportunity for constructive dialogue around shared methodological and theoretical models.

Author / Editor information

Laurent Dousset is Associate Professor at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) and is former Director of the CREDO (Centre for Research and Documentation on Oceania) in Marseilles. He has done research in Aboriginal Australia and in Vanuatu and has also developed several IT knowledge systems for the social sciences.

Serge Tcherkézoff is Professor of Anthropology at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris-Marseille. With Maurice Godelier and Pierre Lemonnier, he founded the CREDO (Centre for Research and Documentation on Oceania), a research unit member of CNRS, EHESS and the University of Provence and is currently organising an EHESS Branch at the Australian National University.

Laurent Dousset is Associate Professor at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) and is former Director of the CREDO (Centre for Research and Documentation on Oceania) in Marseilles. He has done research in Aboriginal Australia and in Vanuatu and has also developed several IT knowledge systems for the social sciences.

Reviews

“This is an extremely welcome addition to the literature -- unfortunately, too many English-speakers today think of Godelier as a footnote in the history of Marxist anthropology. This volume helps us remember the importance of Godelier as a thinker of the first order and a major bridge between the Anglophone and Francophone anthropology.” · Alex Golub, University of Hawai’i, Manoa

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Laurent Dousset and Serge Tcherkézoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 Some Things You Say, Some Things You Dissimulate, and Some Things You Keep To Yourself: Linguistic, Material, and Marital Exchange in the Construction of Melanesian Societies Joel Robbins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 2 The Enigma of Christian Conversion: Exchange and the Emergence of New Great Men among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea John Barker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Chapter 3 Alienating the Inalienable: Marriage and Money in a Big Man Society Polly Wiessner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Chapter 4 Anthropology and the Future of Sexuality Studies: An Essay in Honour of Maurice Godelier Gilbert Herdt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
Chapter 5 Material and Immaterial Relations: Gender, Rank and Christianity in Vanuatu Margaret Jolly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Chapter 6 The Making of Chiefs: ‘Hereditary Succession’, Personal Agency and Exchange in North Mekeo Chiefdoms Mark S. Mosko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Chapter 7 What is left out in Kinship Robert H. Barnes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Chapter 8 Maurice Godelier and the Asiatic Mode Jack Goody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
Chapter 9 The Dialectic of Cosmopolitanization and Indigenization in the Contemporary World System: Contradictory Configurations of Class and Culture Jonathan Friedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
Publications by Maurice Godelier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 296
Keywords: Theory and Methodology

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Published: April 1, 2012
ISBN: 9780857453327