When history accelerates : essays on rapid social change, complexity, and creativity /
edited by C.M. Hann.
- London ; Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Athlone Press, 1994.
- x, 325 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Fast Forward: The Great Transformation Globalized /C.M. Hann -- 2. The Evolution of Society: A Darwinian Approach / Krishan Kumar -- 3. Rates of Change: Weasel Words and the Indispensable in Anthropological Analysis / Roy Ellen -- 4. Modelling Complexity and Change: Social Knowledge and Social Process / Michael D. Fischer -- 5. Social Creativity / J. Davis -- 6. Rustic Chivalry: Variations in Honour Ideologies in Italy and the Limits of Historical Explanation /Nevill Colclough -- 7. Meanings, Myths and Mystifications: The Social Construction of Life Stories in Russia /Ray Pahl and Paul Thompson -- 8. 'And Who Now Plans Its Future?': Land in South Africa after Apartheid /Henry Bernstein -- 9. Change, Cognition and Control: The Reconstruction of Nomadism in Iran / Richard Tapper --10. Creating Law: Trade, Production and Accelerating Change in Late Ottoman Izmir / June Starr -- 11. The New Circle of Equity /Ernest Gellner. 12. Social Change and Culture: Responses to Modernization in an Alevi Village in Anatolia / David Shankland -- 13. Negotiating Ethnographic Reality: Team Fieldwork in Turkey / Emine Onaran Incirlioglu --14. Social Standards and Social Thought / Alan Rew --15. The Application of Anthropology in Britain, 1983-1993 / R.D. Grillo.
048511464X $75.00
94037292
Social change--Case studies.
HN16 / .W54 1994
303.4 / WHE
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Fast Forward: The Great Transformation Globalized /C.M. Hann -- 2. The Evolution of Society: A Darwinian Approach / Krishan Kumar -- 3. Rates of Change: Weasel Words and the Indispensable in Anthropological Analysis / Roy Ellen -- 4. Modelling Complexity and Change: Social Knowledge and Social Process / Michael D. Fischer -- 5. Social Creativity / J. Davis -- 6. Rustic Chivalry: Variations in Honour Ideologies in Italy and the Limits of Historical Explanation /Nevill Colclough -- 7. Meanings, Myths and Mystifications: The Social Construction of Life Stories in Russia /Ray Pahl and Paul Thompson -- 8. 'And Who Now Plans Its Future?': Land in South Africa after Apartheid /Henry Bernstein -- 9. Change, Cognition and Control: The Reconstruction of Nomadism in Iran / Richard Tapper --10. Creating Law: Trade, Production and Accelerating Change in Late Ottoman Izmir / June Starr -- 11. The New Circle of Equity /Ernest Gellner. 12. Social Change and Culture: Responses to Modernization in an Alevi Village in Anatolia / David Shankland -- 13. Negotiating Ethnographic Reality: Team Fieldwork in Turkey / Emine Onaran Incirlioglu --14. Social Standards and Social Thought / Alan Rew --15. The Application of Anthropology in Britain, 1983-1993 / R.D. Grillo.
048511464X $75.00
94037292
Social change--Case studies.
HN16 / .W54 1994
303.4 / WHE