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“LE REGARD ÉLOIGNÉ” EURASIA IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF JACK GOODY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2005

CHRISTOPHER HANN
CHRISTOPHER HANN
Affiliation:
Max-Planck Institut für ethnoligische Forschung, Halle/Saale [hann@eth.mpg.de]
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TWO NEW, COMPLEMENTARY ESSAYS BY JACK GOODY together add up to an impressive call for a general reorientation of academic perspectives concerning the mythologies and hypocrisies of “the West”. In addition to a detailed survey of the recent literature on the topic, each volume is also full of entertaining digressions, some of a personal nature, which provide insight into the long-term intellectual agenda of a remarkable scholar. In the course of this review I shall draw attention to some of the most pertinent of his earlier publications, in which themes touched upon in these high-level syntheses are explored more fully.

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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , December 2004 , pp. 403 - 410
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© 2004 Archives Européennes de Sociology

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Footnotes

Jack GOODY, Capitalism and Modernity. The Great Debate (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2004) and Islam in Europe (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2004).