Jack Goody

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1. Jack Goody

   Author of The Domestication of the Savage Mind (Themes in the Social Sciences), The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society (Studies in Literacy, the Family, Culture and the State), The Interface between the Written and the Oral (Studies in Literacy, the Family, Culture and the State)

2. Jürgen Habermas

   Author of Knowledge and Human Interests, Legitimation Crisis, Theory and Practice

3. Pierre Bourdieu

   Author of La Misère du monde, Pascalian Meditations, Questions de sociologie

4. Clifford Geertz

   Author of The Interpretation of Cultures, Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology (Basic Books Classics), Peddlers and Princes: Social Development and Economic Change in Two Indonesian Towns (Comparative Studies of New Nations)

5. Marcel Detienne

   Author of The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece, Comparer l'incomparable

6. Claude Lévi-Strauss

   Author of The Savage Mind, Structural Anthropology, The Elementary Structures of Kinship

7. Edmund Leach

   Author of Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure (London School of Economics Monographs on Social, Culture and Communication: The Logic by which Symbols Are Connected. An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysi, Dialectic in Practical Religion (Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology)

8. Georges Duby

   Author of The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France, The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined, The Early Growth of European Economy: Warriors and Peasants from the Seventh to the Twelfth Centuries (World Economic Hi

9. George Herbert Mead

   Author of The Philosophy of the Present (Great Books in Philosophy), Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Century

10. Carolyn Steedman

    Author of Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories)

11. Eric A. Havelock

    Author of Preface to Plato (History of the Greek Mind,), The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present

12. May Sim

    Author of Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius

13. Robert Piercey

    Author of The Uses of the Past from Heidegger to Rorty: Doing Philosophy Historically

14. Nick Smith

    Author of I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies

15. C. G. Prado

    Author of Choosing to Die: Elective Death and Multiculturalism

16. Louis Dumont

    Author of Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications (Nature of Human Society), Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective

17. Catherine Dauvergne

    Author of Making People Illegal: What Globalization Means for Migration and Law (Law in Context)

18. Laleh Khalili

    Author of Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration (Cambridge Middle East Studies)

19. G. C. Peden

    Author of Arms, Economics and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs

20. Matthew R. Christ

    Author of The Bad Citizen in Classical Athens