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   African societies and those of Europe and Asia. 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. His many books engage with productive systems, the

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   Part 1 summarizes Goody’s project from the mid-1970s to around the millennium. The Eurasian Miracle provides a retrospective road map to this project. Part 2 focuses on The Theft of History and, to a lesser extent, two related texts, Islam in Europe and Renaissances.

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   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 variation, imagination and creativ-ity, and the problems of methodology and analysis.

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   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.

   • Author: John Keith Hart

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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:

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   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.

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   How did Jack Goody view world history?

   • JACK GOODY’S VISION OF WORLD HISTORY In a short preface to the first in his series of comparisons between Africa and Eurasia, Jack Goody (1976: ix–x) tells us that ethnography, the aspiration to write about another culture studied intensively through fieldwork, never defined his intellectual horizons.

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   How did Jack Goody get to know other cultures?

   • Jack Goody could not settle for just getting to know another culture. He rather devised and carried out an anthropological project with a scale to match fDownloaded by [105.236.139.62] at 13:55 20 August 2014 202 K. Hart the world society being formed in his day.

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   What does Jack Goody say about modern society?

   • 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.

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   What did Jack Goody say about global hegemony?

   • In Jack Goody’s view, perhaps the most significant result of the West’s global hegemony has been to impose a universal system of time-space on the rest of the world. The Theft of History kicks off with a brief sketch of how it came about, emphasizing the distortions of world history that have accompanied this development.

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   Why is Goody's based on a Neolithic era?

   • Goody’s was drawn from Childe’s materialist synthesis of the two great revolutions—the ‘‘neolithic’’ 10,000 years ago and the ‘‘urban’’ 5,000 years ago—which, with the industrial revolution, marked definitive stages in the history of human production and society.

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   What is the key to understanding social forms for Jack Goody?

   • To recap, the key to understanding social forms for Jack Goody lies in production. Civilization or human culture is largely a consequence of the means of communication—once writing, now an array of mechanized media, but always interacting with oral and written forms. The site of social struggles is property, now often intellectual property.

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   Jack Goody, with Eric Wolf (1982) 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?