Retreat of the Social

Bruce Kapferer is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bergen. He has held academic positions in Zambia, Manchester, Adelaide, London, and Queensland and carried out extensive fieldwork in Zambia, Sri Lanka, India, Australia, and South Africa.

• Introduction: The Social Construction of Reductionist Thought and PracticeBruce KapfererChapter 1. The Relocation of the Social and the Retrenchment of the ElitesJonathan FriedmanChapter 2. Legends of Fordism: Between Myth, History, and Foregone ConclusionsGeorge BacaChapter 3. More Power to You, or Should It Be Less?Christopher C. TaylorChapter 4. Methodological Individualism and Sociological ReductionismRoger JustChapter 5. Reductionism and Misunderstanding Human SocialityThomas ErnstChapter 6. Theories and Ideologies in AnthropologyJukka SiikalaChapter 7. Death of the Indian SocialRohan BastinChapter 8. When Nothing Stands Outside the SelfAndré IteanuChapter 9. From Bell Curve to Power Law: Distributional Models between National and World SocietyKeith Hart