Building Social Worlds

Thinking forwards with Esther Newcomb Goody

Barbara Bodenhorn, Alicia Fentiman, Mary Goody (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

410 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-952-0 (ISBN)

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Esther Newcomb Goody had an extensive academic career. She particularly revisited intellectual themes of kinship and relationships. This collection draws on ethnography across Africa, Europe, Oceania and the Americas, and uses Goody’s ideas to expand contributors understanding of the nature of relationships, communication, intimacy, resistance and resilience with a particular focus on rich ethnographies of childhood and learning. It discusses a wide range of subjects in personhood and parenthood, fosterage, apprenticeship and modes of learning; kinship in historical perspective; power, politics and speech; the effects of late-modern capitalism on households and the complex relations between persons and things.

Barbara Bodenhorn is an Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. She has worked in Arctic Alaska since 1980 and in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca since 2004. Her most recent publication is Risky Futures, edited with Olga Ulturgasheva (Berghahn, 2022).

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Going Against the Grain, Again

Barbara Bodenhorn, Alicia Fentiman and Mary Goody

Chapter 1. Wives into Sisters, Sisters into Wives

Marilyn Strathern

Chapter 2. Fragments of Intimacy and the Reassembling of Relations

Barbara Bodenhorn

Chapter 3. The Visible Invisibilities of the Circulation of Women in the Ottoman Mediterranean and Their Implications

Paul Sant Cassia

Chapter 4. The Circulation of Women and Children, and Everybody Else… Half a Century Later

Lynne Brydon

Chapter 5. Video, Voice and Vygotsky: Narratives of Learning among the Konkomba of Northern Ghana

Alicia Fentiman

Chapter 6. Lessons in Milking and Lessons in Math

Cataline Laserna

Chapter 7. Singing the Names: Custom and Chronology in Mamprusi Drum Histories

Susan Drucker Brown

Appendix: BAAMYO’S TEXT

Chapter 8. One Snake is the Biggest in the Pond: Religious Change, Funerals and Linguistic Evidence in Mambila

David Zeitlyn

Chapter 9. Childrearing through Social Interaction on Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea

Penny Brown and Marisa Casillis

Conclusion

Felicia Kafui Etsey

Afterword

John Keith Hart

Appendices

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index; 27 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-952-7 / 1805399527
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-952-0 / 9781805399520
Zustand	Neuware