When history accelerates essays (9 resultados)

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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; x, 325 p : ill ; ports ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1 Fast Forward: The Great Transformation Globalized -- SYNCHRONIC SYSTEMS AND TEMPORALITY -- SOCIAL CHANGE AND REVOLUTION -- ETHNOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE AND RESPONSIBILITY -- PAUL STIRLING: A PERSONAL SYNTHESIS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 2 The Evolution of Society: A Darwinian Approach -- THE HUMAN ANIMAL -- DARWINISM AND EVOLUTIONISM -- SOCIOLOGICAL DARWINISM -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 3 Rates of Change: Weasel Words and the Indispensable in Anthropological Analysis -- INTRODUCTION -- SYSTEMS, SUBSYSTEMS AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL CHANGE -- IDENTIFYING KINDS OF CULTURAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- PERCEIVING AND MEASURING RATES OF CHANGE -- SYSTEMIC CONSEQUENCES OF DIFFERENT RATES OF CHANGE -- DISJUNCTIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS -- RATES OF CHANGE AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 4 Modelling Complexity and Change: Social Knowledge and Social Process -- INTRODUCTION -- ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH -- WEAK AND STRONG REPRESENTATIONS -- ARRANGING A MARRIAGE IN URBAN PAKISTAN -- ETHNOGRAPHIC SETTING -- MULTIPLE DOMAINS AND CONTEXT -- CHANGE BETWEEN 1982 AND 1992 -- SPECIFICATIONS, EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE DISTRIBUTION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 5 Social Creativity -- WHAT DOES IT PRODUCE? -- WHAT ARE THE KINDS OF SOCIAL CREATIVITY? -- WHAT ARE THE RAW MATERIALS? -- WHAT ARE THE RESULTS OF SOCIAL CREATIVITY LIKE? -- REFERENCES -- 6 Rustic Chivalry: Variations in Honour Ideologies in Italy and the Limits of Historical Explanation -- INTRODUCTION -- HONOUR CRIMES -- THE LANGUAGE OF HONOUR -- THE USES OF HISTORY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 7 Meanings, Myths and Mystifications: The Social Construction of Life Stories in Russia -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS.THE POLITICS OF FORGETFULNESS -- EDUCATION, WORK AND FAMILY VALUES -- IGOR AND FAMILY TRADITION -- RELIGION -- CONCLUSION: BETWEEN CULTURES, A LIVING HISTORY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 8 'And Who Now Plans Its Future?': Land in South Africa after Apartheid -- A STARTING POINT -- APARTHEID, LAND AND POPULATION -- WHITE AGRICULTURE AT THE END OF APARTHEID -- THE BANTUSTANS -- AGRARIAN REFORM: A POLITICAL VACUUM? -- THE POLICY DEBATE -- DIFFERENT QUESTIONS, A DIFFERENT POLITICS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 9 Change, Cognition and Control: The Reconstruction of Nomadism in Iran -- PREAMBLE -- BACKGROUND: THE NOMADS OF IRAN -- THE RECONSTRUCTION OF NOMAD ECONOMY AND SOCIETY UNDER THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC -- WHO ARE - AND WERE - THE 'NOMADS'? DEFINITION AND REDEFINITION -- TRIBES AND NOMADS -- NOMADS' SELF-DEFINITIONS -- REDEFINING 'SETTLEMENT' -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 10 Creating Law: Trade, Production and Accelerating Change in Late Ottoman Izmir -- INTRODUCTION -- ISLAMIC LAW, SECULAR LAW AND TRADE -- INTERNATIONAL TRADE SHAPES THE LOCAL CONTEXT -- AN AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION -- LOCAL AND NATIONAL ELITES, AND LEGAL CHANGE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 11 The New Circle of Equity -- A PENDULUM-SWING THEORY OF KEMALISM -- THE TURKISH WAY TO MODERNITY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 12 Social Change and Culture: Responses to Modernization in an Alevi Village in Anatolia -- INTRODUCTION -- A SUNNI VILLAGE MODEL -- AN ALEVI VILLAGE MODEL -- TARIKAT AND ERIAT -- SOME EXAMPLES -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 13 Negotiating Ethnographic Reality: Team Fieldwork in Turkey Emine Onaran Incirlioglu -- INTRODUCTION -- POWER AND LANGUAGE, GENDER AND LIFE CYCLE -- KNOWLEDGE OF VILLAGE HISTORY -- INSIDER AND OUTSIDER: 'ONE OF US' VERSUS THE GAVUR -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 14 Social Standards and Social Thought -- DISTINCTIVE INSIGHTS.I.…

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; x, 325 p : ill ; ports ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1 Fast Forward: The Great Transformation Globalized -- SYNCHRONIC SYSTEMS AND TEMPORALITY -- SOCIAL CHANGE AND REVOLUTION -- ETHNOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE AND RESPONSIBILITY -- PAUL STIRLING: A PERSONAL SYNTHESIS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 2 The Evolution of Society: A Darwinian Approach -- THE HUMAN ANIMAL -- DARWINISM AND EVOLUTIONISM -- SOCIOLOGICAL DARWINISM -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 3 Rates of Change: Weasel Words and the Indispensable in Anthropological Analysis -- INTRODUCTION -- SYSTEMS, SUBSYSTEMS AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL CHANGE -- IDENTIFYING KINDS OF CULTURAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- PERCEIVING AND MEASURING RATES OF CHANGE -- SYSTEMIC CONSEQUENCES OF DIFFERENT RATES OF CHANGE -- DISJUNCTIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS -- RATES OF CHANGE AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 4 Modelling Complexity and Change: Social Knowledge and Social Process -- INTRODUCTION -- ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH -- WEAK AND STRONG REPRESENTATIONS -- ARRANGING A MARRIAGE IN URBAN PAKISTAN -- ETHNOGRAPHIC SETTING -- MULTIPLE DOMAINS AND CONTEXT -- CHANGE BETWEEN 1982 AND 1992 -- SPECIFICATIONS, EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE DISTRIBUTION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 5 Social Creativity -- WHAT DOES IT PRODUCE? -- WHAT ARE THE KINDS OF SOCIAL CREATIVITY? -- WHAT ARE THE RAW MATERIALS? -- WHAT ARE THE RESULTS OF SOCIAL CREATIVITY LIKE? -- REFERENCES -- 6 Rustic Chivalry: Variations in Honour Ideologies in Italy and the Limits of Historical Explanation -- INTRODUCTION -- HONOUR CRIMES -- THE LANGUAGE OF HONOUR -- THE USES OF HISTORY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 7 Meanings, Myths and Mystifications: The Social Construction of Life Stories in Russia -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS.THE POLITICS OF FORGETFULNESS -- EDUCATION, WORK AND FAMILY VALUES -- IGOR AND FAMILY TRADITION -- RELIGION -- CONCLUSION: BETWEEN CULTURES, A LIVING HISTORY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 8 'And Who Now Plans Its Future?': Land in South Africa after Apartheid -- A STARTING POINT -- APARTHEID, LAND AND POPULATION -- WHITE AGRICULTURE AT THE END OF APARTHEID -- THE BANTUSTANS -- AGRARIAN REFORM: A POLITICAL VACUUM? -- THE POLICY DEBATE -- DIFFERENT QUESTIONS, A DIFFERENT POLITICS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 9 Change, Cognition and Control: The Reconstruction of Nomadism in Iran -- PREAMBLE -- BACKGROUND: THE NOMADS OF IRAN -- THE RECONSTRUCTION OF NOMAD ECONOMY AND SOCIETY UNDER THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC -- WHO ARE - AND WERE - THE 'NOMADS'? DEFINITION AND REDEFINITION -- TRIBES AND NOMADS -- NOMADS' SELF-DEFINITIONS -- REDEFINING 'SETTLEMENT' -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 10 Creating Law: Trade, Production and Accelerating Change in Late Ottoman Izmir -- INTRODUCTION -- ISLAMIC LAW, SECULAR LAW AND TRADE -- INTERNATIONAL TRADE SHAPES THE LOCAL CONTEXT -- AN AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION -- LOCAL AND NATIONAL ELITES, AND LEGAL CHANGE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 11 The New Circle of Equity -- A PENDULUM-SWING THEORY OF KEMALISM -- THE TURKISH WAY TO MODERNITY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 12 Social Change and Culture: Responses to Modernization in an Alevi Village in Anatolia -- INTRODUCTION -- A SUNNI VILLAGE MODEL -- AN ALEVI VILLAGE MODEL -- TARIKAT AND ERIAT -- SOME EXAMPLES -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 13 Negotiating Ethnographic Reality: Team Fieldwork in Turkey Emine Onaran Incirlioglu -- INTRODUCTION -- POWER AND LANGUAGE, GENDER AND LIFE CYCLE -- KNOWLEDGE OF VILLAGE HISTORY -- INSIDER AND OUTSIDER: 'ONE OF US' VERSUS THE GAVUR -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 14 Social Standards and Social Thought -- DISTINCTIVE INSIGHTS.I.…

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Condición: New. Editor(s): Hann, C. M. Series: History and Politics of the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 651. . 2016. Reissue. hardcover. . . . . …

Condición: New. Editor(s): Hann, C. M. Series: History and Politics of the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 651. . 2016. Reissue. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Condición: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 352 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Rapid and complex social change is of urgent concern to all human societies, but how can researchers do justice both to the objective complexities of causal relations and to subjective experiences of different types of change? The present volume focuses upon cases of 'accelerating change' - including Russia, Iran, South Africa and Turkey - and examines some of the theoretical issues involved in conceptualizing social change and transformation and the methods for their study. The fifteen essays in this collection will be of interest to all students of history and the social sciences; and especially to students of social anthropology, sociology and development studies.…

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