Towards an Operational Social Anthropology: Volume 2: An Operational Social Anthropology

In volume 1, Professor Verdon sought to identify what crippled social anthropology's original project, that of understanding sociocultural variability. He found its cause in a universal, Aristotelian cosmology that renders groups ontologically variable to their principles of social organization, by defining them in terms of behaviour regulation.

In this second volume, he develops a cure to that cosmological malaise: to define groups outside all behaviour regulation, and to define a separate...