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Modes of Thought in Western and Non-Western Societies
Edited by Ruth Finnegan and Robin Horton
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
Ruth Finnegan OBE, FBA, Emeritus Professor Open University. Her work has mainly been on oral performance, narrative, the ethnography of music, and communicating (including extra-sensory perception). Her publications include Oral Literature in Africa, The Hidden Musicians, Communicating: the Multiple Modes of Human Communication, Why Do We Quote? and, most recently, the novels Black Inked Pearl, Voyage of Pearl of the Seas, and The Helix Pearl. Born in Ireland, she now lives in Old Bletchley, southern England.
Robin Horton, FBA Professor at the University of Port Harcourt in Rivers State, Nigeria, is an English social anthropologist and philosopher who, in a series of influential works since the 1950s, has challenged and expanded views in the study of religion and anthropology—most notably, his celebrated Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West: Essays on Magic, Religion and Science. He has lived in Africa for four decades where he continues to conduct research on African indigenous religions, magic, mythology, and rituals.
"The essays gathered here are dedicated to E.E. Evans-Pritchard, whose pioneering fieldwork of the 1920s-30s led to a reshaping of social anthropology through his publications and teaching at Oxford after the War, and up to the early 1970s. He opened up a range of issues not only linking the peoples of the educated West with the wider world, but also linking anthropology with ongoing concerns in political science, philosophy, linguistics, and literary and religious studies. Over the years since its first appearance, the relevance of this book has undoubtedly increased along with the current complexity of human contact and communication. It will surely be welcomed by a new generation of readers.”
-Wendy James, CBE, FRAI, FBA, Social Anthropologist