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Articles by Jack Goody
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The Labyrinth of Kinship
in NLR 36, November-December 2005, pp. 127-139
Subjects: Anthropology
Jack Goody on Maurice Godelier, Métamorphoses de la parenté. Kinship as the central concern of anthropology, and its place in French and British traditions of the discipline. The universality—or otherwise—of incest taboos; their interpretation by Lévi-Strauss; and the role of beliefs versus interests in generating them.
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How Ethnic is Ethnic Cleansing?
in NLR 7, January-February 2001, pp. 5-15
Subjects: Religion , War and Peace , Balkans
How ethnic is ‘ethnic cleansing’? From Cyprus to Andalusia, Ireland to Bosnia, Pakistan to Palestine, Jack Goody finds religion—inherently threatened by apostasy or conversion—a stronger marker of communal conflict and mass expulsion than an ill-defined ethnicity.
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Women, Class and Family
in NLR I/219, September-October 1996, pp. 119-132
Subjects: History and Historiography , Social Theory , Gender
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