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W. H. R. Rivers, who has been called 'the founder of the modern study of social organization', exerted an immense influence on his contemporaries and successors. This volume reprints three of his lectures, delivered in 1913 and first published in 1914, which provide a short and brilliant exposition of his theoretical approach, and are exemplary of his handling of ethnographic evidence. His theme is the relationship between kinship terminologies and social organization, more particularly forms of marriage, a subject still of lively theoretical interest. Also included is the same author's The Genealogical Method of Anthropological Enquiry, first published in 1910, a classic of anthropological methodology, and Professor Raymond Firth of the London School of Economics and Professor David Schneider of the University of Chicago provide commentaries estimating the past and present importance of Rivers in British and American Anthropology respectively.
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W. H. R. Rivers has been called 'the founder of the modern study of social organization' and was immensely influential on his contemporaries and successors. Professor Raymond Firth teaches at the London School of Economics and Professor David Schneider at the University of Chicago.
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Kinship and Social Organization : Together with 'The Genealogical Method of Anthropological Enquiry' with Commentaries by Raymond Firth and David M. Schneider
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ Dust Jacket. London: The Athlone Press / University of London , 1968. Bright, clean, square, tight copy. Dust Jacket is lightly rubbed at the corners. Jacket is NOT price clipped (30s net). No chips. No tears. No creases. Corner of free front endpaper clipped. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology, No. 34. Illustrated with 5 diagrams. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original orange cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. Sharp corners. From the Dust Jacket: "This volume reprints three of [Rivers's] lectures, delivered in 1913 and first published in 1914, which provide a short and brilliant exposition of his theoretical approach, and are exemplary of his handling of ethnographic evidence. His theme is the relationship between kinship terminologies and social organizations, more particularly forms of marriageĀ Also included is the same author's THE GENEALOGICAL METHOD OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ENQUIRY, first published in 1910, a classic of anthropological methodology, and Professor Raymond Firth of the London School of Economics and Professor David M. Schneider of the University of Chicago provide commentaries estimating the past and present importance of Rivers in British and American Anthropology respectively." . 1st Collected ed, with new commentaries. Hard Cover. Fine condition./Very Good+ Dust Jacket. 8vo. vi, 118pp. 1st Collected ed, with new commentaries. Seller Inventory # 003959