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Soviet and Western Anthropology / ed. by Ernest Gellner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1980]Copyright date: ©1980Description: 1 online resource (286 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780231928946
  • 9780231890991
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Marxism, anthropology, history -- The emergence of Marxism in anthropology in France -- Historicism in Soviet ethnographic science -- The theory of socio-economic formations and world history -- A Russian Marxist philosophy of history -- Part II: The distinctiveness of the primitive -- Ethnographic reconstruction of the history of primitive society -- Hunters and gatherers today and reconstruction of the past -- Thought and writing -- The origins of the state among the nomads of Asia -- Part ΙII: The distinctiveness of the contemporary world -- The object and the subject-matter of ethnography -- The place of ‘ethnos’ theory in Soviet anthropology -- Ethnic sociology of present-day life -- The conceptual reappearance of peasantry in Anglo-Saxon social science -- Part IV: Anthropology and psychology -- Anthropology and the psychological disciplines -- Ethnography and psychology -- The study of religions in Soviet ethnography -- Theories of North Asian shamanism -- Part VI: Concepts and methods -- Ethnography and linguistics -- Ethnography and demography -- Structure and structuralism -- Index
Summary: Studies the relevance of Soviet societal anthropology for its western counterparts with a basic framework of Marxism but also delves into the works of ethnographers, linguists, and demographers.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780231890991

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Marxism, anthropology, history -- The emergence of Marxism in anthropology in France -- Historicism in Soviet ethnographic science -- The theory of socio-economic formations and world history -- A Russian Marxist philosophy of history -- Part II: The distinctiveness of the primitive -- Ethnographic reconstruction of the history of primitive society -- Hunters and gatherers today and reconstruction of the past -- Thought and writing -- The origins of the state among the nomads of Asia -- Part ΙII: The distinctiveness of the contemporary world -- The object and the subject-matter of ethnography -- The place of ‘ethnos’ theory in Soviet anthropology -- Ethnic sociology of present-day life -- The conceptual reappearance of peasantry in Anglo-Saxon social science -- Part IV: Anthropology and psychology -- Anthropology and the psychological disciplines -- Ethnography and psychology -- The study of religions in Soviet ethnography -- Theories of North Asian shamanism -- Part VI: Concepts and methods -- Ethnography and linguistics -- Ethnography and demography -- Structure and structuralism -- Index

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Studies the relevance of Soviet societal anthropology for its western counterparts with a basic framework of Marxism but also delves into the works of ethnographers, linguists, and demographers.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)

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