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Sir John (Jack) Rankine Goody (born 27 July 1919) is a British social anthropologist. He has been a prominent teacher at Cambridge University, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1976, and he is an associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. Among his main publications are Death, property and the ancestors (1962), The myth of the Bagre (1972) and (1977).
on 27 July 1919, Goody grew up in Welwyn Garden City and St Albans, where he attended St Albans School .
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Sir John (Jack) Rankine Goody (born 27 July 1919) is a British social anthropologist. He has been a prominent teacher at Cambridge University, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1976, and he is an associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. Among his main publications are Death, property and the ancestors (1962), The myth of the Bagre (1972) and (1977).
Biography
Born on 27 July 1919, Goody grew up in Welwyn Garden City and St Albans, where he attended St Albans School . He went up to St John's College, Cambridge to study English Literature in 1938, where he came to know leftist intellectuals like Eric Hobsbawm. Fighting in North Africa in World War II, he was captured by the Germans and spent three years in a prisoner-of-war camps. Inspired by reading Frazer's Golden Bough and Gordon Childe, he transferred to Archaeology and Anthropology when he resumed university study in 1946. After fieldwork in Gonja in northern Ghana, Goody increasingly turned to comparative study of Europe, Africa and Asia. Between 1954 and 1984, he taught social anthropology at Cambridge University. He was also the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1976 and has also has been knighted by the Queen.
Goody has pioneered the comparative anthropology of literacy, attempting to gauge the causal preconditions and effects of writing as a technology. He also wrote substantially on the history of the family and the anthropology of inheritance. More recently, he has written on the anthropology of flowers and food.
Works
Jack Goody explained social structure and social change primarily in terms of three major factors. The first was the development of intensive forms of agriculture that allowed for the accumulation of surplus – surplus explained many aspects of cultural practice from marriage to funerals as well as the great divide between African and Eurasian societies. Second, he explained social change in terms of urbanization and growth of bureaucratic institutions that modified or overrode traditional forms of social organization, such as family or tribe, identifying civilization as “the culture of cities”. And third, he attached great weight to the technologies of communication as instruments of psychological and social change. He associated the beginnings of writing with the task of managing surplus and, in an important paper with Ian Watt (Goody and Watt, 1963), he advanced the argument that the rise of science and philosophy in classical Greece depended importantly on their invention of an efficient writing system, the alphabet. Because these factors could be applied to either to any contemporary social system or to systematic changes over time, his work is equally relevant to many disciplines.
Books
- The social organisation of the LoWiili
- 1962 Death, Property and the Ancestors: A Study of the Mortuary Customs of the LoDagaa of West Africa (Stanford, Stanford University Press, ISBN 0422980803). reviews:
- ed., (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1968); translated into German and Spanish. reviews:
- 1972 The Myth of the Bagre (Oxford, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198151349). reviews:
- 1973 ed., (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1973). reviews:
- 1976 [Culture and Communication: The Logic by which Symbols are Connected. An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Social Anthropology http://books.google.com/books?id=npx_mKKJo88C] Cambridge University Press ISBN 052129052X
- 1976 1976 Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521290880
- 1977 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1977); translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Turkish.
- 1982 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press); translated into Spanish, French and Portuguese.
- 1983 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press); translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese. review:
- 1986 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press); translated into German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese.
- 1987 Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521337941
- Systems of Marriage and the Family in the Pre-Industrial Societies of Eurasia (Studies in Literacy, the Family, Culture and the State) 1990 Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521367611
- The Culture of Flowers (Cambridge, 1993); translated into French and Italian.
- (1995) (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press) review:
- (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996); translated into French and Italian.
- (Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 1997); translated into Spanish.
- (London, Verso, 1998). ISBN 185984829X
- 2000 (Oxford, Blackwell Publishers).
- 2004 Islam in Europe Polity Press, Cambridge, 178pp. ISBN 0 7456 3193 2. review:
- 2004 ISBN 0415330106
- 2007 Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521870690
Selected articles
- 1956 Jack Goody The British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Dec., 1956), pp. 286-305 doi:10.2307/586694
- 1957 The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 87, No. 1 (Jan. - Jun., 1957), pp. 75-104 doi:10.2307/2843972
- GOODY, J. 1959. The Mother's Brother and the Sister's Son in West Africa. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 89:61-88
- 1961 Jack Goody The British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Jun., 1961), pp. 142-164 doi:10.2307/586928
- 1963 Jack Goody, Ian Watt Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Apr., 1963), pp. 304-345
- 1969 Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Jan., 1969), pp. 55-78
- 1972 Man, New Series, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Mar., 1972), p. 137
- 1973 Goody, J. [Polygyny, economy and the role of women]. In J. Goody (Ed.), . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973
- 1973 Sociology, Vol. 3, No. 1, 55-76 (1969) DOI: 10.1177/003803856900300104
- Goody, Jack (1973) in Bridewealth and Dowry, ed. J. Goody and S. Tambiah. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Jack Goody, Joan Buckley Cross-Cultural Research, Vol. 9, No. 3, 185-202 (1974) DOI: 10.1177/106939717400900301
- 1977 ] Vinigi Grottanelli, Giorgio Ausenda, Bernardo Bernardi, Ugo Bianchi, Y. Michal Bodemann, Jack Goody, Allison Jablonko, David I. Kertzer, Vittorio Lanternari, Antonio Marazzi, Roy A. Miller, Jr., Laura Laurencich Minelli, David M. Moss, Leonard W. Moss, H. R. H. Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark, Diana Pinto, Pietro Scotti, Tullio Tentori. Current Anthropology, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Dec., 1977), pp. 593-614
- 1989 Population and Development Review, Vol. 15, Supplement: Rural Development and Population: Institutions and Policy (1989), pp. 119-144 doi:10.2307/2807924
- 1991 Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 20, 1991, pp. 1-23
- 1992 Social Anthropology 1 (1a),9–32. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8676.1992.tb00238.x
- 1994 Jack Goody, Cesare Poppi Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Jan., 1994), pp. 146-175
- 1996 Comparing Family Systems in Europe and Asia: Are There Different Sets of Rules? Population and Development Review: 22 (1).
- 1996 Social Anthropology Volume 4 Issue 1 Page 1-16, February 1996. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8676.1996.tb00310.x
- 2002 La Ricerca Folklorica, No. 45, Antropologia delle sensazioni (Apr., 2002), pp. 17-28 doi:10.2307/1480153
- 2004 Cahiers de littérature orale n. 56 , pp. 53-66
- 2006 Social Science Information, Vol. 45, No. 3, 341-348 DOI: 10.1177/0539018406066526
- 2006 Comparative Studies in Society and History (2006), 48: 503-519 (Issue 03 - May 2006) Cambridge University Press doi:10.1017/S0010417506000211
External links
- Maria Lúcia Pallares-Burke, . Chapter 1 of The New History: Confessions and Conversations (Polity Press, 2002). ISBN 0-7456-3020-0
- Maurice Bloch, Dan Sperber (to Jack Goody) Current Anthropology. 2002. 43 (4) 723-748
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