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Esther Newcomb Goody had an extensive academic career. She particularly revisited intellectual themes of kinship and relationships. This collection draws on ethnography across Africa, Europe, Oceania and the Americas, and uses Goody’s ideas to expand contributors understanding of the nature of relationships, communication, intimacy, resistance and resilience with a particular focus on rich ethnographies of childhood and learning. It discusses a wide range of subjects in personhood and parenthood, fosterage, apprenticeship and modes of learning; kinship in historical perspective; power, politics and speech; the effects of late-modern capitalism on households and the complex relations between persons and things.
“Building Social Worlds is a fitting tribute to an exceptional scholar and a significant contribution to scholarship in its own right. The introduction is impressively comprehensive.” • Joanna Cook, University College London
“I found this book fascinating and I know it will interest many people. The structure of this book works well, as it highlights the multiple aspects of her personality and work.” • Rebecca Empson, University College London
Barbara Bodenhorn is an Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. She has worked in Arctic Alaska since 1980 and in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca since 2004. Her most recent publication is Risky Futures, edited with Olga Ulturgasheva (Berghahn, 2022).
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Going Against the Grain, Again
Barbara Bodenhorn, Alicia Fentiman and Mary Goody
Chapter 1. Wives into Sisters, Sisters into Wives
Marilyn Strathern
Chapter 2. Fragments of Intimacy and the Reassembling of Relations
Barbara Bodenhorn
Chapter 3. The Visible Invisibilities of the Circulation of Women in the Ottoman Mediterranean and Their Implications
Paul Sant Cassia
Chapter 4. The Circulation of Women and Children, and Everybody Else… Half a Century Later
Lynne Brydon
Chapter 5. Video, Voice and Vygotsky: Narratives of Learning among the Konkomba of Northern Ghana
Alicia Fentiman
Chapter 6. Lessons in Milking and Lessons in Math
Cataline Laserna
Chapter 7. Singing the Names: Custom and Chronology in Mamprusi Drum Histories
Susan Drucker Brown
Appendix: BAAMYO’S TEXT
Chapter 8. One Snake is the Biggest in the Pond: Religious Change, Funerals and Linguistic Evidence in Mambila
David Zeitlyn
Chapter 9. Childrearing through Social Interaction on Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea
Penny Brown and Marisa Casillis
Conclusion
Felicia Kafui Etsey
Afterword
John Keith Hart
Appendices
Index