An Introduction to Two Theories of Social Anthropology: Descent Groups and Marriage Alliance Contributor(s): Parkin, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1845451473 ISBN-13: 9781845451479 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2006 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Methodology |
Dewey: 306.83 |
LCCN: 2005055852 |
Series: Methodology and History in Anthropology |
Physical Information: 0.32" H x 6" W x 9" (0.46 lbs) 148 pages |
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Publisher Description: Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, was one of the most important figures in post-war French anthropology. He is well-known for his early work on India, which culminated in Homo Hierarchicus (1966; in English 1972, 1980), an anthropological account of the caste system. He later extended this work into a comparison of the values of Indian and western society in works like Essays on Individualism (1986) and German ideology: From France to Germany and Back (1994). He is also known for pioneering work on kinship in south India and more generally (for example Affinity as a Value, 1983). The current volume represents the fruits of this side of his activities and originated in as a series of lectures providing an account of the British and French schools for students. |
Contributor Bio(s): Parkin, Robert: - Robert Parkin is a Departmental Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He has a longstanding interest in the anthropology of kinship, represented by Kinship: an Introduction to Basic Concepts (1997) and Kinship and Family: n Anthropological Reader (2004, edited with Linda Stone). He has also published a full-length study of Dumont in the same Berghahn series (Louis Dumont and hierarchical opposition, 2003). |