W. H. R. Rivers

Kinship and Social Organisation (Routledge Revivals) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 106
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136708688
• Artikelnr.: 38268820

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION by Raymond Firth I PART ONE Commentaries RIVERS AND KROEBER IN
THE STUDY OF KINSHIP by David M. Schneider 7 RIVERS ON OCEANIC KINSHIP by
Raymond Firth 17 PART TWO Kinship and Social Organization by W. H. R.
Rivers ORIGINAL PREFACE 38 LECTURE I (Classificatory Terminology and
Cross-Cousin Marriage) 39 LECTURE 2 (Classificatory Terminology and Other
Forms of Marriage) 55 LECTURE 3 (The Classificatory System and Forms of
Social Organization) 75 THE GENEALOGICAL METHOD OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL INQUIRY
97 LIST OF WORKS CITED IN THE INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARIES 110 INDEX 113