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First published in 1950 and this edition in 1987, this book is one
of the most wide-ranging and respected surveys on kinship and
marriage in African social life. In his introduction,
Radcliff-Brown provides a masterly analysis of the main features of
African kinship systems and the theoretical problems arising from
the study of them. The contributions range from examinations of
kinship systems among the Swazi, the Tswana, the Zulu, the Nuer,
and the Ashanti, to double descent among the Yakoe and dual descent
in the Nuba groups of the Sudan. The contributrs themselves are
still viewed as giants in their field: Evans-Pritchard, Meyer
Fortes, Max Gluckman, Hilda Kuper, Naderl, A. I. Richards, Schapera
and Monica Wilson.
First published in 1950 and this edition in 1987, this book is one
of the most wide-ranging and respected surveys on kinship and
marriage in African social life. In his introduction,
Radcliff-Brown provides a masterly analysis of the main features of
African kinship systems and the theoretical problems arising from
the study of them. The contributions range from examinations of
kinship systems among the Swazi, the Tswana, the Zulu, the Nuer,
and the Ashanti, to double descent among the Yakoe and dual descent
in the Nuba groups of the Sudan. The contributors themselves are
still viewed as giants in their field: Evans-Pritchard, Meyer
Fortes, Max Gluckman, Hilda Kuper, Naderl, A. I. Richards, Schapera
and Monica Wilson.
Originally published in 1939, this book presents the content of the
Frazer Lecture in Social Anthropology for that year, which was
delivered by Alfred Radcliffe-Brown at Cambridge University. This
book will be of value to anyone with an interest in anthropology
and the nature of taboo.
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955) was a key British social
anthropologist who is widely considered to be the founder of social
functionalism. Originally published in 1922, and reprinted in this
corrected form in 1933, this book was based upon fieldwork carried
out by Radcliffe-Brown, alongside E. L. Grant Watson and Daisy
Bates, in the Andaman Islands during the years 1906 to 1908. The
text contains detailed information on various aspects of the
indigenous cultures found on the Islands, with analysis of social
organisation, ceremonial customs, myths, legends and religious
beliefs. Illustrative figures are incorporated throughout,
including numerous photographs, and appendices are provided on
language and technology. This book will be of value to anyone with
an interest in Radcliffe-Brown, the Andaman Islands and the
development of anthropology.
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