Libros de Jack Goody

El Robo De La Historia

• 464 páginas

Cocina, Cuisine Y Clase

• 312 páginas
• ¿Por qué no ha surgido en África haute cuisine diferenciada? ¿Cuáles son las características de las tradiciones gastronómicas más sofisticadas? ¿Qué roles cumple la mujer en la preparac...

La Evolución De La Familia Y El Matrimonio

• 312 páginas
• Hacia el siglo IV, las pautas europeas de matrimonio y de parentesco experimentaron una transformación radical. La Europa cristiana rompió con su propio pasado y estableció unas prácticas que se separaron claramente de las vige...

El Islam En Europa

• 192 páginas
• Como distinguido especialista en los procesos de cambio cultural, Jack Goody ofrece en este libro un gran panorama de los contactos históricos entre el islam y Europa, desde la presencia árabe-islámica en España e Italia hasta...

Capitalismo Y Modernidad: El Gran Debate

• 256 páginas
• Jack Goody investiga en este libro cómo occidente consiguió la ventajosa posición económica y social que ostenta actualmente. Se trata de un incisivo análisis histórico que examina cuándo y por qué...

La Domesticación Del Pensamiento Salvaje

• 194 páginas
• A partir de una serie de trabajos de campo realizados en el oeste de África y del estudio de un importante conjunto de materiales de las sociedades antiguas del Cercano Oriente, el autor intenta explicar las transformaciones producidas en el pensam...

Food And Love: A Cultural History Of East And West

• The development of romantic love, the evolution of national and regional cuisines, the..

The Theft Of History

• 342 páginas
• Professor Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive eurocentric or occidentalist biases of so much western historical writing. Goody also examines the consequent 'theft'...

Renaissances

Death And The Ancestors

• This volume is a study of mortuary customs of the LoDagaa of West Africa, in research for this project the author spent over 100 days attending funeral ceremonies and attended 25 burial services.

European Family

• This is a concise, yet wide-ranging, history of the family in Europe from antiquity to the present..

The East In The West

• The East in the West reassesses Western views of Asia, which much European history and social..

The Expansive Moment

• Jack Goody's new book explores the history of social anthropology as an emergent discipline in the..

The Oriental, The Ancient And The Primitive

The Interface Between The Written And The Oral

• Whilst the fundamental significance of the spoken language for human interaction is widely acknowledged, that of writing is less well known, and in this wide-ranging series of essays Jack Goody examines in depth the complex and often confused relationship...

The Logic Of Writing And The Organization Of Society

• 213 páginas
• This book assesses the impact of writing on human societies, both in the Ancient Near East and in twentieth-century Africa, and highlights some general features of social systems that have been influenced by this major change in the mode of communication....

Development Of The Family And Marriage In Europe

Family And Inheritance

• 428 páginas
• This pioneering book examines different aspects of the inheritance customs in rural Western Europe in the pre-industrial age: for families and whole societies, the roles of lawyers in reducing them to a common system, and the recurring debate on the merit...

The Domestication Of The Savage Mind

• Current theories and views on the differences in the 'mind' of human societies depend very much on..

Production And Reproduction

• 157 páginas
• This book is an attempt to see the development of domestic institutions, the family, marriage, conjugal roles, in relation to changes in the mode of productive activity, and specifically with the change from hoe to plough agriculture. These differences...