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The retreat of the social : the rise and rise of reductionism / edited by Bruce Kapferer.

Title
The retreat of the social : the rise and rise of reductionism / edited by Bruce Kapferer.
Publication
New York : Berghahn Books, 2005.

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Additional Authors
Kapferer, Bruce
Description
vi, 125 p.; 18 cm.
Series Statement
Critical interventions : a forum for social analysis ; v. 6
Uniform Title
Critical interventions 6.
Subject
  • Reductionism
  • Anthropology > Philosophy
  • Reductionisme
  • Sociale wetenschappen
  • Theorieën
Genre/Form
Aufsatzsammlung.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : the social construction of reductionist thought and practice / Brace Kapferer -- The relocation of the social and the retrenchment of the elites / Jonathan Friedman -- Legends of Fordism : between myth, history, and foregone conclusions / George Baca -- More power to you, or should it be less? / Christopher C. Taylor -- Methodological individualism and sociological reductionism / Roger Just -- Reductionism and misunderstanding human sociality / Thomas Ernst -- Theories and ideologies in anthropology / Jukka Siikala -- Death of the Indian social / Rohan Bastin -- When nothing stands outside the self / Andre Iteanu -- From bell curve to power law : distributional models between national and world society / Keith Hart.
ISBN
1845451759 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 63114897
  • SCSB-10897951
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library