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Edwin Ardener - a new expanded edition of the collected works of one of the most important social anthroplogists in Britian of his time. Ardener worked on social, economic, demographic and political problems, and was particularly influential in his sustained effort to bring together social anthropology and linguistics in a highly original attempt to reconcile scientific and humanistic approaches to the study of society. This volume offers a theoretically and conceptually coherent body of work by this innovative and profound thinker, which will continue to excite and stimulate new generations of students and researchers as it has in the past.

Ardener is the Czerny of anthropology, concerned with technical training, with how to think productively within the discipline. He should be read above all by postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers, whose formation is not yet 'completed.'...As exercises to form the anthropological mind, these papers are both unique and irreplaceable. · JRAI

The intellectual bequest of a brilliant and compassionate human being. · Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University

His voice is as deeply needed as ever. Ardener anticipated numerous central issues in the social sciences today...This publishing event will achieve something much more significant still: a long-overdue recognition that Ardener not only forged ahead of today's mainstream but bequeathed a legacy of ideas that can regenerate and redirect anthropological thought today. This new edition will allow a new and more receptive audience to come to grips with Ardener's distinctive mode of analysis and understanding, bringing it more clearly into the mainstream of anthropological thought not only as a historical contribution but also, and especially, as a source of new reflections. (From the Foreword)

Edwin Ardener was one of the most important social anthropologists in Britain of his time, working on social, economic, demographic and political problems and particularly influential in his sustained effort to bring together social anthropology and linguistics in a highly original attempt to reconcile scientific and humanistic approaches to the study of society. This volume offers the best of Ardener's papers and forms a theoretically and conceptually coherent body of work by this innovative and profound thinker, which will continue to excite and stimulate new generations of students and researchers as it did in the past.

"Ardener is the Czerny of anthropology, concerned with technical training, with how to think productively within the discipline. He should be read above all by postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers, whose formation is not yet 'completed.' ... As exercises to form the anthropological mind, these papers are both unique and irreplaceable." . JRAI"The intellectual bequest of a brilliant and compassionate human being." . Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University"His voice is as deeply needed as ever. Ardener anticipated numerous central issues in the social sciences today ... This publishing event will achieve something much more significant still: a long-overdue recognition that Ardener not only forged ahead of today's mainstream but bequeathed a legacy of ideas that can regenerate and redirect anthropological thought today. This new edition will allow a new and more receptive audience to come to grips with Ardener's distinctive mode of analysis and understanding, bringing it more clearly into the mainstream of anthropological thought not only as a historical contribution but also, and especially, as a source of new reflections." (From the Foreword)Edwin Ardener was one of the most important social anthropologists in Britain of his time, working on social, economic, demographic and political problems and particularly influential in his sustained effort to bring together social anthropology and linguistics in a highly original attempt to reconcile scientific and humanistic approaches to the study of society. This volume offers the best of Ardener's papers and forms a theoretically and conceptually coherent body of work by this innovative and profound thinker, which will continue to excite and stimulate new generations of students and researchers as it did in the past." "Ardener is the Czerny of anthropology, concerned with technical training, with how to think productively within the discipline. He should be read above all by postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers, whose formation is not yet 'completed.'...As exercises to form the anthropological mind, these papers are both unique and irreplaceable." JRAI "The intellectual bequest of a brilliant and compassionate human being." Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University "His voice is as deeply needed as ever. Ardener anticipated numerous central issues in the social sciences today...This publishing event will achieve something much more significant a long-overdue recognition that Ardener not only forged ahead of today's mainstream but bequeathed a legacy of ideas that can regenerate and redirect anthropological thought today. This new edition will allow a new and more receptive audience to come to grips with Ardener's distinctive mode of analysis and understanding, bringing it more clearly into the mainstream of anthropological thought not only as a historical contribution but also, and especially, as a source of new reflections." (From the Foreword) Edwin Ardener was one of the most important social anthropologists in Britain of his time, working on social, economic, demographic and political problems and particularly influential in his sustained effort to bring together social anthropology and linguistics in a highly original attempt to reconcile scientific and humanistic approaches to the study of society. This volume offers the best of Ardener's papers and forms a theoretically and conceptually coherent body of work by this innovative and profound thinker, which will continue to excite and stimulate new generations of students and researchers as it did in the past. Contents Foreword – Edwin Ardener’s Prophetic Vision Introduction Acknowledgements 1 Social Anthropology and Language (with editorial preface) 2. The New Anthropology and its Critics 3 Language, Ethnicity and Population 4 Belief and the Problem of Women 5 Some Outstanding Problems in the Analysis of Events 6 ‘Behaviour’ – a Social Anthropological Criticism 7 Social Anthropology and Population 8 The ‘Problem’ Revisited 9 The Voice of Prophecy – Further Problems in the Analysis of Events 10 ‘Social Fitness’ and the Idea of ‘Survival’ 11 Comprehending Others 12 The Problem of Dominance 13 Social Anthropology and the decline of Modernism 14 ‘Remote Areas’ – some Theoretical Considerations 15 Witchcraft, Economics and the Continuity of Belief 16 Social Anthropology and the Historicity of Historical Linguistics 17 Edward Sapir, 1884–1939 18 The Construction of History: ‘Vestiges of Creation’ Postscript 1 – The Prophetic Condition Postscript 2 – Towards a Rigorously Empirical Anthropology Appendix: Edwin Ardener – a Bibliography Notes References Index Ardener anticipated numerous central issues in the social sciences. This book aims to allow a more receptive audience to come to grips with Ardener's distinctive mode of analysis and understanding, bringing it clearly into the mainstream of anthropological thought not only as a historical contribution but also, as a source of new reflections. "Edwin Ardener was one of the most important social anthropologists of his time in Britain working on social, economic, demographic and political problems. This volume offers the best of Ardener's papers and forms a theoretically and conceptually coherent body of work by this innovative and profound thinker." --Book Jacket