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Jack Goody challenges Eurocentric assumptions about the backwardness of cultural and intellectual development in Asia. His wide-ranging and provocative book presents a more balanced approach to Eastern and Western history and society.
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'The East in the West represents a valuable contribution to a debate which has become increasingly pressing.' David Washbrook, Economic History Review
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The East in the West reassesses Western views of Asia. Traditionally many European historians and theorists have seen the societies of the East as 'static' or 'backward'. Jack Goody challenges these assumptions, beginning with the notion of a special Western rationality which enabled 'us' and not 'them' to modernise. He then turns to book-keeping, which several social and economic historians have seen as intrinsic to capitalism, arguing that there was in fact little difference between East and West in terms of mercantile activity. Other factors said to inhibit the East's development, such as the family and forms of labour, have also been greatly exaggerated. This Eurocentrism both fails to explain the current achievements of the East, and misunderstands Western history. The East in the West starts to redress the balance, and so marks a fundamental shift in our view of Western and Eastern history and society.
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- Año de publicación1996
- ISBN 10 0521553601
- ISBN 13 9780521553605
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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition (1996) , so stated. Fine in Near Fine DJ: The Book is flawless; the binding is secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, like-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing no discernible imperfections. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Virtually 'As New'. The DJ shows a bit of very faint wrinkling to the top of the front panel; else flawless; unclipped. Clean, intact, and attractive. Very close to "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9.25 x 6.25 x 0.9 inches). Language: English. Weight: 20 ounces. Hardback with DJ. Sir John Rankine "Jack" Goody FBA (1919 2015) was an English social anthropologist. He was a prominent lecturer at Cambridge University, and was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology from 1973 to 1984. Goody has pioneered the comparative anthropology of literacy, attempting to gauge the preconditions and effects of writing as a technology. He also published about the history of the family and the anthropology of inheritance. More recently, he has written on the anthropology of flowers and food. Goody explained social structure and social change primarily in terms of three major factors. The first was the development of intensive forms of agriculture that allowed the accumulation of surplus surplus explained many aspects of cultural practice from marriage to funerals as well as the great divide between African and Eurasian societies. Second, he explained social change in terms of urbanisation and growth of bureaucratic institutions that modified or overrode traditional forms of social organisation, such as family or tribe, identifying civilisation as "the culture of cities". And third, he attached great weight to the technologies of communication as instruments of psychological and social change. He associated the beginnings of writing with the task of managing surplus and he advanced the argument that the rise of science and philosophy in classical Greece depended on the invention of the alphabet. As these factors could be applied to any contemporary social system or to systematic changes over time, his work has proven relevant to many disciplines. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; x, 295 pages. pages. Nº de ref. del artículo: 57650
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