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Esther Newcomb Goody Revisited: Engaging with the Legacy of an Original Interdisciplinarian

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Esther Newcomb Goody Revisited

Engaging with the Legacy of an Original Interdisciplinarian

Edited by Barbara Bodenhorn, Alicia Fentiman, Mary Goody

410 pages, 27 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80539-952-0 $145.00/£107.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (April 2025)

eISBN 978-1-80539-953-7 eBook Not Yet Published


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“Esther Goody Revisited is a fitting tribute to an exceptional scholar and a significant contribution to scholarship in its own right. The introduction is impressively comprehensive.” • Joanna Cook, University College London

“I found this book fascinating and I know it will interest many people. The structure of this book works well, as it highlights the multiple aspects of her personality and work.” • Rebecca Empson, University College London

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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 their 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.

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).

Alicia Fentiman is a social anthropologist and has worked extensively in the field of international development in sub–Saharan Africa. She has published numerous articles on anthropology and education.

Mary Goody is an artist and researcher, currently working on links between sculpture-making and physical empathy as a doctoral student at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the daughter of Esther Newcomb Goody.

Subject: Anthropology (General)Sociology


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