A01=W. H. R. Rivers
Author_W. H. R. Rivers
Banks Islands
brother
brother's
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Common Nomenclature
cross-cousin
Cross-cousin Marriage
Daughter's Daughter
Eddystone Island
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father's
Father's Brother
Father's Brother's Son
Father's Father
Father's Sister
Father's Sister's Husband
Father's Sister's Son
Fijian Systems
Hawaiian System
husband
marriage
Morgan's Book
mother's
Mother's Brother
Mother's Brother's Wife
Mutual Salutations
Professor Kroeber
Psychological Similarities
San Cristoval
Santa Cruz Islands
sister
sister's
Social Organisation
wife
Wife's Sister
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367716950
- Weight: 163g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 13 Dec 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
