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Capitalism and Modernity
Wiley 2013; US$ 24.95This important new book investigates how the West attained its current position of economic and social advantage. In an incisive historical analysis, Jack Goody examines when and why Europe (and Anglo-America) started to outstrip all other continents in socio-economic growth. Drawing on non-Western examples of economic and technical progress, Goody... more...
Islam in Europe
Wiley 2013; US$ 24.95This vigorously argued book reveals the central role that Islam has played in European history. Following the movement of people, culture and religion from East to West, Goody breaks down the perceived opposition between Islam and Europe, showing Islam to be a part of Europe's past and present. In an historical analysis of religious warfare and forced... more...
The Theft of History
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 21.00Jack Goody builds on his own work to extend his influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive eurocentric or occidentalist biases of western historical writing, and the consequent 'theft' by the West of the achievements of other cultures in the invention of (notably) democracy, capitalism, individualism, and love. more...
Myth, Ritual and the Oral
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 21.00Jack Goody, one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists, returns to the related themes of myth, orality and literacy. more...
The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 48.00In The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive one of the world's most foremost anthropologists looks in depth at kinship practice in Asia, and continues the comparative survey of pre-industrial family formation undertaken in The Development of Family and Marriage in Europe (1983) and elsewhere. Professor Goody's findings cause him to question... more...
The Character of Kinship
Cambridge University Press 1974; US$ 35.00A collection of specially commissioned essays dealing with general aspects of kinship, family and marriage from an anthropological point of view. more...
The Expansive Moment
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 34.00Jack Goody's analysis of the history and ideology of social anthropology in Britain and Africa. more...
The Eurasian Miracle
Wiley 2013; US$ 22.95The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human culture and society in the nineteenth century. It was commonly believed that there was a natural progression from Antiquity through Feudalism to Capitalism which could not have taken place elsewhere. Today there are many who still believe that this progression... more...
The Bedouin of Cyrenaica
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 60.00This collection brings together Emrys Peters' major writings on the Bedouin of Libya. more...
Varieties of Javanese Religion
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 39.00This is the most comprehensive book on Javanese religion since Clifford Geertz's famous study of 1960. Written in a vivid, jargon-free style, it should appeal to students of anthropology, comparative religion, and Islam, and to anyone interested in understanding how an exotic religion is practised. more...









