Scope of Anthropology

Laurent Dousset is Associate Professor at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) and is former Director of the CREDO (Centre for Research and Documentation on Oceania) in Marseilles. He has done research in Aboriginal Australia and in Vanuatu and has also developed several IT knowledge systems for the social sciences.

• List of Tables and FiguresIntroductionLaurent Dousset and Serge TcherkézoffChapter 1. Some Things You Say, Some Things You Dissimulate, and Some Things You Keep To Yourself: Linguistic and Material Exchange in the Construction of Melanesian SocietiesJoel RobbinsChapter 2. The Enigma of Christian Conversion: Exchange and the Emergence of New Great Men among the Maisin of Papua New GuineaJohn BarkerChapter 3. Alienating the Inalienable: Marriage and Money in a Big-man SocietyPolly WiessnerChapter 4. Anthropology and the Future of Sexuality Studies: An Essay in Honour of Maurice GodelierGilbert HerdtChapter 5. Material and Immaterial Relations: Gender, Rank and Christianity in VanuatuMargaret JollyChapter 6. The Making of Chiefs: Hereditary Succession, Personal Agency and Exchange in North Mekeo ChiefdomsMark S. MoskoChapter 7. What is left out in KinshipRobert H. BarnesChapter 8. Maurice Godelier and the Asiatic ModeJack GoodyChapter 9. The Dialectic of Cosmopolitanization and Indigenization in the Contemporary World System: Contradictory Configurations of Class and CultureJonathan FriedmanPublications by Maurice GodelierNotes on the ContributorsIndex

“This is an extremely welcome addition to the literature -- unfortunately, too many English-speakers today think of Godelier as a footnote in the history of Marxist anthropology. This volume helps us remember the importance of Godelier as a thinker of the first order and a major bridge between the Anglophone and Francophone anthropology.”  ·  Alex Golub, University of Hawai’i, Manoa