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Kinship and Social Organisation (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Book 70 of 77: LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology

Rivers, W. H. R.

 
9780415670470: Kinship and Social Organisation (Routledge Revivals)
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ISBN 10: 0415670470 ISBN 13: 9780415670470
Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

First published in 1914, W. H. R. Rivers' hugely influential study was the first to effectively demonstrate the close connection between methods of denoting relationship or kinship and forms of social organisation, including those based on different forms of the institution of marriage. He also shows that the terminology of relationship has been rigorously determined by social conditions and that, therefore, systems of relationship furnish us with a most valuable instrument in studying the history of social institutions.

This series of lectures was orginally delivered by the author in May 1914, at the London School of Economics. They are based on the experiences of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to Melanesia in 1908.

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W.H.R Rivers

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415670470
ISBN 13 
9780415670470
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
106