Closed Systems Open Minds Limits by Gluckman Max (34 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: DUST JACKET. Second Edition. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is good. Binding is tight/good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 274 pages with bibliography and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine first edition. Social anthropology, defined operationally in terms of what social anthropologists have done in the last fifty years, is the study and comparison of tribal societies and of small fields of social life with emphasis on the role of custom. When a social anthropologist's research leads him into any field, which belongs to other disciplines, what line should he adopt? What use may he make of the results that other scholars have already achieved? Must he knowingly make naive assumptions concerning events, which they have regarded as complex? In each of the fascinating essays which in turn form the core of this book - V. W. Turner's on symbols in Ndembu ritual; F.G. Bailey's on disputes which occurred in two Orissa villages; A. L. Epstein's on urban communities in Africa; T. Lupton's and S. Cunnison's on the relationship between behaviour in three Manchester workshops and certain events which happened outside; and W. Watson's on social mobility and social class in a coalmining Scottish burgh-several social anthropologists attempt to answer these questions by discussing the problems of method that they have encountered in their own recent research; and in the searching discussion which sum up the results. To analyze one first has to circumscribe one's field, and then simplify within the area of circumscription. Both circumscription and simplification may involve procedures of absorbing, abridging, and making naive assumptions. The contributors draw attention to the attempt to distinguish between psychical facts (emotions, thoughts, etc.) and psychological, which we believe should apply only to statements within the science of psychology, and not to be used by the former. They similarly distinguish between social facts and sociological or social-anthropological statements. ""Psychological"" and ""sociological"" are so well established in common parlance as adjectives to categorize facts that attempts to specialize them as hopeless. Condition: Previous owner's stamps on end pages and end papers, some pencil underlining and marginalia, points bumped and rubbed else about very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ink writing in text to first 50 pages.

Hardcover. 8.5x5.5", 274 pp. Name on flyleaf, else clean, tight, VG in Good dj with browning and small tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1964. Anthropological theory. Aldine Publishing. 274p. Very good cloth and good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 274pp.

Cloth over Board. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good w/ Protective Cover. First Edition. This book is in very good condition. There is some corner bumping on this book. There is some foxing on the fore edges and an ownership mark on the FEP. The jacket is in very good condition. with some slight foxing and some tearing/cracking Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. hardback, octavo, a good tightly bound copy with an unmarked text and in a lightly chipped and age-toned pictorial dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. Hardcover; second printing of a 1964 copyright; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fading and shelf wear to exterior; otherwise in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Dust jacket, fading and shelf wear, protected by a Mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. x 274pp hardback, brown cloth gilt in wrapper, reprinted, ownership signature, good in a chipped and spine tanned wrapper.

Hardcover. 274p., bibliography, index, boards. In dust jacket; jacket torn at head of spine, with mild wear from light handling, otherwise Very Good. Studies in method and interdisciplinary anthropological research, written by scholars at the University of Manchester in the late 1950s.

hardcover. 1st. 8vo, 274 pp. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. 274pp. Very good plus condition with text clean & binding tight in a like dust jacket.

VG, clean HB; DJ-G/VG. 274 pp.

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 274pp, slight browning, clean and sound, no inscriptions, brown cloth, Very Good / no dustwrapper.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; x, 274 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index. Contents; Introduction / Ely Devons -- Symbols in Ndembu ritual / V.W. Turner -- Two villages in Orissa (India) / F.G. Bailey -- Urban communities in Africa / A.L. Epstein -- Workshop behaviour / Tom Lupton -- Social mobility and social class in industrial communities / William Watson -- Conclusion : modes and consequences of limiting a field of study / Ely Devons and Max Gluckman. Subjects; Ethnology. Sociology. Ethnology Methodology. Sociology Methodology. Anthropology. Social classes. Systems. Social Anthropology. 1 Kg.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The dust jacket has light spotting and is tanned around the edges on the spine. The edges of the book have light tanning. A previous owners name is written on the first blank page in black pen. 274 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size E: 8"-9" Tall (203-228mm).

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; x, 274 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index. Contents; Introduction / Ely Devons -- Symbols in Ndembu ritual / V.W. Turner -- Two villages in Orissa (India) / F.G. Bailey -- Urban communities in Africa / A.L. Epstein -- Workshop behaviour / Tom Lupton -- Social mobility and social class in industrial communities / William Watson -- Conclusion : modes and consequences of limiting a field of study / Ely Devons and Max Gluckman. Subjects; Ethnology. Sociology. Ethnology Methodology. Sociology Methodology. Anthropology. Social classes. Systems. Social Anthropology. 1 Kg.

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Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. 445.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 274 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. ***Please Read*** English edition - DJ shows slight wear - pages like new with no marks - my shelf location - 10-B-7*.

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