An Introduction to Two Theories of Social Anthropology: Descent Groups and Marriage Alliance Robert Parkin 9781845451462

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The book is a translation of Louis Dumont's lectures on kinship, which provide a comprehensive but also idiosyncratic overview of descent theory and alliance theory for students. These two competing theories of kinship, associated respectively with the British and French schools of social anthropology, as well as the theoretical tendencies of functionalism and structuralism, dominated anthropological theory from the 1950s to the 1970s and are of fundamental historical significance.

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ISBN 9781845451462
Author Robert Parkin
Format Hardback
Page Count 148
Imprint Berghahn Books
Publisher Berghahn Books
Weight(grams) 327g

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