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Goody’s agenda is one which the Department ‘Resilience and Transformation in Eura-sia’ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology seeks to continue. In an annual lecture series, a distinguished scholar addresses pertinent themes for anthropology and related fields:
View PDF chevron_right. 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.
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Goody views the Old World as a uni- fied entity since the urban revolution of the Bronze Age; numerous publications have highlighted developments in East Asia and criticised the eurocentric bias of Western historians and social theorists.
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.
Goody’s agenda is one which the Department ‘Resilience and Transformation in Eura-sia’ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology seeks to continue. In an annual lecture series, a distinguished scholar addresses pertinent themes for anthropology and related fields:
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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?
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In this essay, I will argue that Jack Goody, alone among his contemporaries, devised and carried out an anthropological project on a scale adequate to the world society being formed in his day. The Preface reproduced above indicates why this should have been so.
