Building Social Worlds: Thinking forwards with Esther Newcomb Goody
Barbara Bodenhorn · Alicia Fentiman · Mary Goody
Apr 2025 · WYSE Series in Social Anthropology Book 17 · Berghahn Books
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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.
About the author
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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