{"product_id":"models-and-interpretations-selected-essays-hardback-9780521366533","title":"Models and Interpretations; Selected Essays (Hardback) 9780521366533","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eModels and Interpretations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSelected Essays\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book of essays by John Barnes will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists and philosophers of social science.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJ. A. Barnes (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521366533, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 February 1990\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e282 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Barnes's collection is rich and wise and can give proportion to current debate.\"   Aidan W. Southall, Ethnohistory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eJohn Barnes's collection of essays covers a variety of topics in sociology and anthropology, including lineage systems, social networks, colonialism, underlying assumptions of social science, and the significance of time in social analysis. Together they identify the author's particular view of social science: he is primarily interested in 'what really happens'. Rather than revamp articles written with a distinctive set of assumptions to bring them into line with current intellectual fashion, Professor Barnes has chosen to let them stand as they are, products of identifiable theoretical stance and modes of exposition. But introductory notes to each chapter set out the context in which the piece was originally written and draw attention to later publications and events that bear on it. An introduction discusses in detail the author's view of social science as the construction of models rather than a search for social laws, while the final chapter presents a model of the modelling process itself.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: social science in practice\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Models Of The Real Social World: 1. Genetrix: genitor: nature: culture? (1973g)\u003cbr\u003e 2. African models in the New Guinea highlands (1962a)\u003cbr\u003e 3. Agnatic taxonomies and stochastic variation (1971n)\u003cbr\u003e 4. Class and committees in a Norwegian island parish (1954a)\u003cbr\u003e 5. The righthand and lefthand kingdoms of God: a dilemma of Pietist politics (1971k)\u003cbr\u003e 6. Indigenous politics and colonial administration, with special reference to Australia (1960a)\u003cbr\u003e 7. The perception of history in a plural society: a study of an Ngoni group in Northern Rhodesia (1951c)\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Models of Social Science: 8. Feedback and real time in social inquiry (1967b)\u003cbr\u003e 9. Time flies like an arrow (1971f)\u003cbr\u003e 10. Kinship studies: some impressions of the current state of play (1980c)\u003cbr\u003e 11. Sociology in Cambridge: an inaugural lecture (1970m)\u003cbr\u003e 12. Social science in India: colonial import, indigenous product or universal truth? (1982c)\u003cbr\u003e Part III. A Model of Modelling: 13. Modelling: for real or for fun? (1983b)\u003cbr\u003e Postscript: structural amnesia (1947: 52–3)\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20anthropology,%20ethnography%20%5BJHMC%5D%22\"\u003eJHMC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007140155672,"sku":"9780521366533","price":70.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521366533i_fbef8873-60db-41b7-b898-de3e74e989c9.jpg?v=1691375763","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/models-and-interpretations-selected-essays-hardback-9780521366533","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}