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The Developmental Cycle in Domestic Groups
Av Jack Goody, Goody m. fl.
Häftad, 1971
569 kr
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Social scientists, when making their studies of the structure of family groups, have often observed the current situation of a particular group of families and drawn conclusions from that static picture. Valuable as many of these conclusions may be, they are incomplete because they overlook the …
Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-West Pakistan
Häftad, 1971
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When this book was originally published in paperback in 1971, one of the most hotly debated themes in Indian sociology was the meaning of the term caste. At one extreme Professor Dumont argued caste is an aspect of Hinduism that cannot be isolated from its religious matrix; on the other, certain …
Bridewealth and Dowry
Häftad, 1973
366 kr
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Bridewealth and dowry have certain obvious similarities in that they both involve the transmission of property at marriage, the usual interpretation suggesting that what distinguishes them is the direction in which the property travels - in the case of bridewealth, from the husband and his kin to …
From Craft to Industry
The Ethnography of Proto-Industrial Cloth Production
Häftad, 2009
557 kr
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The essays in this volume focus on two themes: the centrality of the production of and trade in cloth in the emergence of market activity; and the nature of the industrialization process. The core of the book is formed by four detailed ethnographic studies of the development and current …
Caste Ideology and Interaction
Häftad, 2009
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Following the publication of the book by E. R. Leach, ed., Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-West Pakistan (1960), much additional information was gathered on caste hierarchies in South Asia, and two major attempts were made to identify the underlying unity of this material - a …
Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies
Av Andrew Strathern, Andrew Strathern
Häftad, 2009
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Now reissued in paperback with a new preface. The Highlands societies of Papua New Guinea, which have been studied intensively by numerous anthropologists since the 1950s, have been widely described as egalitarian and as characterised by achieved leadership. The Melanesian 'big-man' system, in …
Marriage in Tribal Societies
Av Meyer Fortes
Häftad, 2009
553 kr
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Continuing a policy of devoting a whole issue to a single topic, the third volume of the series deals with aspects of marriage in tribal societies. Three papers by Esther Goody, Grace Harris and Jean La Fontaine give accounts of observations in African tribal societies; the fourth, by Marguerite …
Councils in Action
Av Audrey Richards, Adam Kuper
Häftad, 2009
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A collection of seven papers by social anthropologists on the processes of decision-making in councils. Types of council described are one community-in-council, two arena councils, an elite council, two modern local government councils and a non-council, a temporary negotiating group which …
Questions and Politeness
Strategies in Social Interaction
Häftad, 1978
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These essays, by anthropologists and anthropological linguists, draw on material from speech communities in three continents to raise fundamental questions about the ways in which interrogative and politeness forms are used in day-to-day social interaction. The authors suggest that interrogative …
Succession to High Office
Av Jack Goody
Häftad, 1979
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Positions of authority in any society are limited in number, and therefore rules of selection must operate in their recruitment. There must also be limitations upon the range of authority exercised. These problems are particularly acute in the case of high office, where the questions of recruitment …
