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This is the first collection of Franz Steiner's keynote papers on comparative economics and the classification of labor,complemented by major unpublished texts on politics, civilization, and cultural criticism. This enables a complete re-evaluation of Steiner's thought. His ideas on truth, value, and civilization are highly critical of Western culture and offer perhaps the earliest critique of Orientalism in British anthropology. Equally significant is the inclusion of Steiner's unpublished lectures on Aristotle and Simmel, the latter probably being the first lecture series devoted to Simmel's ideas by a British-based anthropologist, as well as hitherto unedited political writings.Another side to Steiner's thought is shown by his aphorisms, often caustic texts and newly translated from the German, as well as by verse translations of his poems relevant to his scholarship. These include an extract from his autobiographical poem, "Conquest", that places his anthropological writings into a personal and ultimately religious framework.A detailed introduction, based on new research, provides a thorough study of Steiner's ideas and establishes the wider intellectual context, thus rounding off a most remarkable collection of texts by one of the most remarkable anthropologists of this century.
Jeremy Adler is Professor of German at King's College London and specializes ininterdisciplinary subjects such as literature and science, poetry and painting, literature and anthropology.
List of IllustrationsPrefatory Note to Volume IIAcknowledgementsA Note on QuotationsPART I: INTRODUCTIONSChapter 1. Franz Steiner. A MemoirM. N. SrinivasChapter 2. Orientpolitik, Value and Civilisation: The Anthropological Thought of Franz Baermann SteinerJeremy Adler and Richard FardonPART II: ORIENTPOLITIK AND THE CIVILISING PROCESSChapter 3. OrientpolitikChapter 4. Gypsies in Carpathian RussiaChapter 5. Letter to Georg RappChapter 6. On the Process of CivilisationChapter 7. Letter to Mr. GandhiChapter 8. MemorandumPART III: SLAVERY, ECONOMICS, AND LABOURChapter 9. Slavery. From A Comparative Study of the Forms of SlaverySlave. A Term of Interstructural ReferenceThe Slavery-Serfdom Dichotomy and European ExperienceChapter 10. Notes on Comparative EconomicsChapter 11. Towards a Classification of LabourPART IV: KINSHIP, CLASSIFICATION, AND SOCIAL STRUCTUREChapter 12. Language, Society, and Social AnthropologyChapter 13. The Study of KinshipChapter 14. Aristotle's SociologyChapter 15. Some Problems in SimmelPART V: ESSAYS AND DISCOVERIESChapter 16. On the Margins of the Social SciencesChapter 17. Malinowksi and ConradChapter 18. Remarks on Truth, Method, and the SciencesPART VI: CONQUESTS I-VIIChapter 19. Conquests. From an Autobiographical PoemBibliography and References to Volumes I and IIName Index to Volumes I and IISubject Index to Volumes I and II
“These works… must be read and reread for their brilliance as individual pieces, but reading them as a collectivity makes the experience all the more richer and intellectually challenging.” • American Anthropologist
