LADISLAV HOLY - Prof. of Social Anthropology, St Andrews 1987-1997

 
  
on the theory and praxis of anthropology
Ladislav Holy, ed. (1976) Knowledge and behaviour [The Queens University papers in social anthropology, 1]. Belfast: Queens University.
Ladislav Holy (1976) 'Knowledge and behaviour.' in L. Holy, ed. Knowledge and behaviour [The Queens University papers in social anthropology, 1]. Belfast: Queens University.
Ladislav Holy and Milan Stuchlik, ed. (1981). The structure of folk models [ASA Monograph, 20]. London: Academic Press.
Ladislav Holy and Milan Stuchlik (1981) 'The structure of folk models.' in L.Holy and M. Stuchlik, ed. The structure of folk models [ASA Monograph, 20]. London: Academic Press.
Ladislav Holy and Milan Stuchlik (1983). Actions, norms and representations: foundations of anthropological enquiry.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ladislav Holy (1984) 'Theory, methodology and the research process.' in R. Ellen, ed. Ethnographic research: a guide to general conduct. London: Academic Press.
Ladislav Holy, ed. (1987) Comparative anthropology. Oxford: Blackwell.
Ladislav Holy (1987) 'Description, generalization and comparison.' in L. Holy, ed. Comparative Anthropology. Oxford: Blackwell.
Ladislav Holy and Charles Jedrej (1987) 'The Podhale School of Anthropology', Anthropology Today. 3:3, p 18
Ladislav Holy (1989) 'Culture, cognition and practical interaction.' Cultural Dynamics. 2, pp 265-85. 
Ladislav Holy (1999) 'Contextualisation and paradigm shifts.' in R. Dilley, ed. The problem of context. Oxford: Berghahn.
on social stratification, segmenatary lineages, and kinship
Ladislav Holy (1963) The disintegration of the kin group structure in the interlacustrine region [in Czech - Rozpad rodového zrizení ve východoafrickém Mezijezerí; English summary]. Prague.
Ladislav Holy, ed. (1968) Social stratification in tribal Africa [translated by Joy Turner-Kadeckova]. Prague: Academia. 
Ladislav Holy and John Blacking (1974) 'Explanation through comparison'. Journal of Comparative Family Studies. 5:1, pp 57-60.
Ladislav Holy (1976) 'Kin groups: structural analysis and the study of behavior.' Annual Review of Anthropology. 5, pp 107-31.
Ladislav Holy, ed. (1979) Segmentary lineage systems reconsidered [The Queens University papers in social anthropology, 4]. Belfast: Queens University.
Ladislav Holy (1979) 'The segmentary lineage structure and its existential status.' in L. Holy, ed. Segmentary lineage systems reconsidered [The Queens University papers in social anthropology, 4]. Belfast: Queens University.
Ladislav Holy (1979) 'Nuer politics.' in L. Holy, ed. Segmentary lineage systems reconsidered [The Queens University papers in social anthropology, 4]. Belfast: Queens University.
Ladislav Holy (1985) 'Power, agnation and marriage in the Middle East.' in R. Fardon, ed. Power and knowledge: anthropological and sociological approaches. Edinburgh : Scottish Academic Press.
Ladislav Holy (1989) Kinship, honour and solidarity: cousin marriage in the Middle East. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Ladislav Holy (1996) Anthropological perspectives on kinship. London: Pluto Press.
on the Berti of the Sudan
Ladislav Holy (1967) 'Social consequences of dia among the Berti.' Africa. 37, pp. 466-79.
Ladislav Holy (1974) Neighbours and kinsmen: a study of the Berti people of Darfur. London: C. Hurst.
Ladislav Holy (1980) 'Drought and change in a tribal economy: the Berti of northern Darfur.' Disasters. 4:1, pp 65-71.
Ladislav Holy (1983) 'Symbolic and non-symbolic aspects of Berti space.' Man. 18, pp 269-88.
Ladislav Holy (1983) 'Strategies of drought management in a dry savannah agricultural society: Berti of Darfur.' Sudan Notes and Records. 64, pp 165-89.
Ladislav Holy (1984) 'Berti.' in R. Weekes, ed. Muslim peoples: a world ethnographic survey [2nd ed.]. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Ladislav Holy (1985) 'Fire, meat, and children: the Berti myth, male dominance, and female power.' in J. Overing, ed. Reason and morality [ASA Monograph, 24]. London : Tavistock.
Ladislav Holy (1987) 'Decline of reciprocal farm labour among the Berti.' in L.O. Manger, ed. Communal labour in the Sudan [Bergen Studies in Social Anthropology, 41]. Bergen, University of Bergen.
Ladislav Holy (1988) 'Gender and ritual in an Islamic society: the Berti of Darfur.' [French summary] Man. 23, pp 469-87. 
Ladislav Holy (1988) 'Cultivation as a long-term strategy of survival: the Berti of Darfur.' in D.H. Johnson and D. Anderson, ed. The ecology of survival: case studies from northeast African history. London: Lester Crook.
Ladislav Holy (1990) 'Strategies for old age among the Berti of the Sudan.' in P. Spencer, ed. Anthropology and the riddle of the Sphinx: paradoxes of change in the life course [ASA Monograph, 28]. London: Routledge.
Ladislav Holy (1991) Religion and custom in a Muslim society: the Berti of Sudan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ladislav Holy (1992) 'Berti dream interpretation.' in M.C. Jedrfj and Rosalin Shaw, ed. Dreaming, Religion and Society in Africa. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
on Zambia and the Toka
Ladislav Holy, ed. (1970) The treasures of Zambian traditional art : an exhibition. Lusaka : National Museums of Zambia.
Ladislav Holy (1971) Zambian traditional art [photographs by Jirina Lukesova]. Lusaka: Zambia Information Services.
Ladislav Holy (1977) 'Toka ploughing teams: towards a decision model of social recruitment.' in M. Stuchlik, ed. Goals and behaviour [The Queens University papers in social anthropology, 2]. Belfast: Queens University.
Ladislav Holy (1979) 'Changing norms of inheritance among the Toka of Zambia.' in D. Riches, ed. The conceptualization and explanation of processes of social change [The Queens University papers in social anthropology, 3]. Belfast: Queens University.
Ladislav Holy (1986) Strategies and norms in a matrilineal society: descent, succession and inheritance amongt the Toka of Zambia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
on Czech culture and society
Ladislav Holy (1991). 'Freedom, nation and an individual in Czech culture.' [in Czech; German summary] Cesky Lid. 78:2, pp 73-8.
L' Chorvathova, Ladislav Holy (1991). 'Interview with Professor Ladislav Holy'. [in Czech] Slov Narod. 39:3/4, pp 348-53. 
Ladislav Holy (1992) 'Culture, market ideology and economic reform in Czechoslovakia.'  in R. Dilley, ed. Contesting markets: analyses of ideology, discourse and practice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Ladislav Holy (1993) 'The end of communism in Czechoslovakia.' in C.M. Hann, ed. Socialism: ideals, ideologies, and local practice [ASA Monograph, 31]. London : Routledge.
Ladislav Holy (1994) 'Metaphors of the natural and the artificial in Czech political discourse.' Man. 29, pp 809-29.
Ladislav Holy (1996) The little Czech and the great Czech nation: national identity and the post-communist transformation of society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ladislav Holy (1997) 'Martyrdom, Czech national identity and politics.' in J. Pettigrew, ed. Martyrdom and political resistance: essays from Asia and Europe. Amsterdam: VU University Press.
Ladislav Holy (1998) 'The metaphor of 'home' in Czech nationalist discourse.' in N. Rapport and A. Dawson, eds. Migrants of identity: perception of home in a world of movement. Oxford: Berg.
misc. writings on African cultures and societies
Ladislav Holy (1957 & 1958) 'Ziskavani a zpracovavani zeleza u vychodoafrickych Bantu.' [Iron extraction and processing of iron amongst the East African Bantu] Ceskoslovenska Ethnografie. 5, pp.273-88, 348-67 & 6, pp.144-62, 270-80, 381-95
Ladislav Holy (1967) Masks and figures from Eastern and Southern Africa [edited by Margret Carey, from the translation by Till Gottheiner; photographed by Dominique Darbois]. [London]: Hamlyn.
Ladislav Holy, ed. (1975) Emil Holub's travels north of the Zambezi, 1885-6 [translated from the German by Christa Johns]. Manchester : Manchester University Press for the Institute for African Studies, University of Zambia.
Ladislav Holy (1976) 'Sorcery and social tension: the Cewa case.' in Ladislav Holy, ed. Knowledge and behaviour [The Queens University papers in social anthropology, 1]. Belfast: Queens University.
ABOUT LADISLAV HOLY
Zdenek Uherek (2001) 'Ladislav Holy and Ernest Gellner: representatives of two incompatible approaches to the study of Central European society?' Czech Sociological Review. 9:2, pp 247-57.
Hastings Donnan (2003) 'Ladislav Holy.' in Vered Amit, ed. Biographical Dictionary of Anthropology. London: Routledge.

 
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