A01=W. H. R. Rivers
American anthropology
Anthropological methodology
anthropological theory
Author_W. H. R. Rivers
Banks Islands
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Common Nomenclature
Cross-cousin Marriage
cultural anthropology
Daughter's Daughter
Daughter’s Daughter
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Father's Brother
Father's Brother's Son
Father's Father
Father's Sister
Father's Sister's Husband
Father's Sister's Son
Father’s Brother
Father’s Brother’s Son
Father’s Father
Father’s Sister
Father’s Sister’s Husband
Father’s Sister’s Son
Genealogical Method
genealogical research methods
Hawaiian System
Kin Terms
Kinship terminologies
Kinship Terminology
kinship terminology in ethnographic studies
marriage systems
Matrilateral Cross-cousin Marriage
Mother's Brother
Mother's Brother's Widow
Mother's Brother's Wife
Mother’s Brother
Mother’s Brother’s Widow
Mother’s Brother’s Wife
Mutual Salutations
Patrilateral Cross-cousin Marriage
Professor Kroeber
Social Organization
social structure analysis
Terminological Patterns
Wife's Sister
Wife’s Sister
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781859738641
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1968
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
