Choice and Change: Essays in Honour of Lucy Mair Revised Edition Contributor(s): Davis, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1859738346 ISBN-13: 9781859738344 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $133.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1974 Annotation: This volume in honour of Professor Mair reflects the range of her interests, and those of the Department in which she taught, in many areas of social anthropology, for it reports on research in Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean, on the tensions between tradition and modernity, between the individual and society, deviance and conformity, stability and conflict. The ambiguities of social change and the choices thus presented to individuals are examined in all the essays and issues of modem politics and development dominate most of them. |
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BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Essays |
Dewey: 301.24 |
Series: Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.02 lbs) 268 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Davis, John: - John Davis is Fellow in Modern History and Politics at The Queen's College, Oxford. Davis, John: -John Davis is Fellow in Modern History and Politics at The Queen's College, Oxford. |