William Robertson Smith

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-157-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 132 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 264 g

Reihe: Anthropology's Ancestors

William Robertson Smith’s influence on anthropology ranged from his relationship with John Ferguson McLennan, to advising James George Frazer to write about “Totem” and “Taboo” for the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he edited. This biography places a special emphasis on the notes and observations from his travels to Arabia, as well as on his influence on the representatives of the “Myth and Ritual School.” With his discussion of myth and ritual, Smith influenced generations of scholars, and his insistence on the connection between the people, their God, and the land they inhabited inspired many of the concepts later developed by Émile Durkheim.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bo¿kovi¿, Aleksandar

Boškovic, Aleksandar

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

Notes on Text

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Life of William Robertson Smith

Chapter 2. Smith’s Travels and Ethnographies

Chapter 3. A Journey in the Hijaz

Chapter 4. Anthropology, Religion, and Myth

Chapter 5. Myth, its Meaning and some of its Explanations

Chapter 6. Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Myth

Chapter 7. “Myth and Ritual School”

Chapter 8. Methodology and Literary Criticism

Chapter 9. Sociological Aspects of Old Testament Religion

Conclusion: Concluding Remarks

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Boškovic, Aleksandar
Aleksandar Boškovic is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology in Belgrade (Serbia). He is also Professor of Anthropology at the University of Belgrade and at the University of Donja Gorica (Montenegro). He is the author or editor of fifteen books, including Other People's Anthropologies: Ethnographic Practice on the Margins (Berghahn, 2008).