The Eurasian Miracle by Jack Goody
The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human culture and society in the 19th century. Today there are many who still believe that this progression was part of a European miracle that underlay the rise to global supremacy of the West. This book dismantles this Eurocentric view of the world.-
The Culture of Flowers
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Cooking, Cuisine and Class
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The Interface between the Written and the Oral
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Production and Reproduction
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Food and Love
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The Theft of History
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Islam in Europe
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Metals, Culture and Capitalism
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The European Family
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Literacy in Traditional Societies
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The East in the West
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Myth, Ritual and the Oral
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The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive
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Death and the Ancestors
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The Expansive Moment
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Succession to High Office
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Comparative Studies in Kinship
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Renaissances
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The Power of the Written Tradition
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The Social Organisation of the Lo Wiili
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Changing Social Structure in Ghana
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Technology, Tradition and the State in Africa
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Capitalism and Modernity
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Family and Inheritance
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Representations and Contradictions
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Bridewealth and Dowry
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The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe
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The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society
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The Domestication of the Savage Mind
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The Developmental Cycle in Domestic Groups
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The Character of Kinship
"In this brief but rich essay, continuing and amplifying the argument he has presented in The Theft of History and elsewhere, Jack Goody drives one more nail into the coffin of Western ethnocentrism"
Peter Burke, University of Cambridge
Peter Burke, University of Cambridge
"The author is a venerable national treasure. In this essay, he demonstrates undiminished powers - revisiting the folly of Eurocentrism, which has been the major theme of his work, and proposing a new way of understanding it."
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, University of Notre Dame
Jack Goody is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780745647937 |
| ISBN 10 | 0745647936 |
| Title | The Eurasian Miracle |
| Author | Jack Goody |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 2009-10-30 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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