TY - BOOK AU - Hann, C. M., TI - When history accelerates: essays on rapid social change, complexity, and creativity SN - 048511464X AV - HN16 .W54 1994 U1 - 303.4 20 PY - 1994/// CY - London, Atlantic Highlands, NJ PB - Athlone Press KW - Social change KW - Case studies N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Fast Forward: The Great Transformation Globalized /C.M. Hann -- 2. The Evolution of Society: A Darwinian Approach / Krishan Kumar -- 3. Rates of Change: Weasel Words and the Indispensable in Anthropological Analysis / Roy Ellen -- 4. Modelling Complexity and Change: Social Knowledge and Social Process / Michael D. Fischer -- 5. Social Creativity / J. Davis -- 6. Rustic Chivalry: Variations in Honour Ideologies in Italy and the Limits of Historical Explanation /Nevill Colclough -- 7. Meanings, Myths and Mystifications: The Social Construction of Life Stories in Russia /Ray Pahl and Paul Thompson -- 8. 'And Who Now Plans Its Future?': Land in South Africa after Apartheid /Henry Bernstein -- 9. Change, Cognition and Control: The Reconstruction of Nomadism in Iran / Richard Tapper --10. Creating Law: Trade, Production and Accelerating Change in Late Ottoman Izmir / June Starr -- 11. The New Circle of Equity /Ernest Gellner; 12. Social Change and Culture: Responses to Modernization in an Alevi Village in Anatolia / David Shankland -- 13. Negotiating Ethnographic Reality: Team Fieldwork in Turkey / Emine Onaran Incirlioglu --14. Social Standards and Social Thought / Alan Rew --15. The Application of Anthropology in Britain, 1983-1993 / R.D. Grillo ER -