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Theft of History
by Goody, Jack
by Goody, Jack
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- Comments: Professor Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive eurocentric or occidentalist biases of so much western historical writing. Goody also examines the consequent 'theft' by the West of the achievements of other cultures in the invention of (notably) democracy, capitalism, individualism, and love. The Theft of History discusses a number of theorists in detail, including Marx, Weber and Norbert Elias, and engages...
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- ISBN-13: 9780521691055
- ISBN: 0521691052
- Publication Date: 2007
- Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
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Jack Goody is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's CollegeGoody, Jack is the author of 'Theft of History ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780521691055 and ISBN 0521691052.
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