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Although it focused primarily on England and France, the book covered European history from Antiquity to the present, including an in-depth overview of the sixteenth-century Reformation. Goody used a vast range of sources to show the profound interconnectedness between religious doctrine, law, norms, and practices.
Jack Goody has been telling us something about the formation of contemporary world society. Like Bruno Latour (1993), he says that we have never been modern. Modern democracy is predicated on the abolition of the unequal society that ruled the Eurasian landmass for 5,000 years.
- John Keith Hart
Jack Goody was born near London in 1919. Formative experiences during the Second World War led him to switch from studies of literature to social anthropology. He undertook fieldwork in Northern Ghana during the last decade of British colonial rule
- John Keith Hart
Dec 4, 1975 · In this book the contributors discuss cultures at different levels of sophistication and literacy and examine the importance of writing on the development of these societies. All the articles except the first were specially written for this book and the extensive introduction unites and synthesizes the material.
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- Jack Goody
Part 3 examines how Goody places Western capitalism in world history, as revealed initially by Capitalism and Modernity and now by Metals, Culture and Capitalism. Part 4 concludes by assessing Jack Goody’s contribution to anthropology. Jack Goody’s vision of world history.
Oct 14, 2010 · Drawing upon his highly influential work on the LoDagaa myth of the Bagre, Goody challenges structuralist and functionalist interpretations of oral 'literature', stressing the issues of...
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Jack Goody, with Eric Wolf as his only serious contemporary rival, devised and carried out an anthropological project with a scale to match the world society being formed in his day. How does Goody’s project of historical comparison illuminate the world society emerging in our time?
