Orientpolitik, Value, and Civilisation

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ISBN: 9781571817136 | 1571817131
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Copyright: 7/1/1999

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Jeremy Adler is Professor of German at King's College London and specialises in interdisciplinary subjects such as literature and science, poetry and painting, literature and anthropology. Richard Fardon is Professor in West African Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and has carried out extensive ethnographic research in Cameroon and Nigeria.

List of Illustrations

vii

Prefatory Note to Volume II

viii

Acknowledgements

A Note on Quotations

xvi

PART I: INTRODUCTIONS

Franz Steiner. A Memoir

(8)

M. N. Srinivas

Orientpolitik, Value, and Civilisation: The Anthropological Thought of Franz Baermann Steiner

(96)

Jeremy Adler

Richard Fardon

PART II: ORIENTPOLITIK AND THE CIVILISING PROCESS

Orientpolitik

107

(5)

Gypsies in Carpathian Russia

112

(3)

Letter to Georg Rapp

115

(8)

On the Process of Civilisation

123

(6)

Letter to Mr Gandhi

129

(18)

Memorandum

147

(13)

PART III: SLAVERY, ECONOMICS, AND LABOUR

Slavery. From A Comparative Study of the Forms of Slavery

Slave: A Term of Inter-Structural Reference

155

(1)

The Slavery-Serfdom Dichotomy and European Experience

156

(4)

Notes on Comparative Economics

160

(14)

Towards a Classification of Labour

174

(19)

PART IV: KINSHIP, CLASSIFICATION, AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE

Language, Society, and Social Anthropology

193

(4)

The Study of Kinship

197

(5)

Aristotle's Sociology

202

(6)

Some Problems in Simmel

208

(21)

PART V: ESSAYS AND DISCOVERIES

On the Margins of the Social Sciences

229

(9)

Malinowski and Conrad

238

(1)

Remarks on Truth, Method, and the Sciences

239

(10)

PART VI: CONQUESTS I-VII

Conquests. From an Autobiographical Poem

249

(18)

Bibliography and References to Volumes I and II

267

(17)

Name Index to Volumes I and II

284

(4)

Subject Index to Volumes I and II

288

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