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First published in 1940 and this edition in 1987, this book is a
comparative study of African political institutions. It describes
different types of social organisation that are found in a number
of African societies and analyses the principles underlying these
traditional forms of government. The volume represents the results
of field studies carried out by trained investigators in a number
of areas, and was compiled and edited under the auspices of the
International African Institute. It will be of interest to
students, anthropologists and administrators.
Social Anthropology explains and illustrates the methods of modern
anthropology, tracing its development from pre-nineteenth-century
philosophical speculations and the empirical work of explorers,
missionaries and colonial servants, up to the second half of the
twentieth century. First published in 1951.
The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
First published in 1940 and this edition in 1987, this book is a
comparative study of African political institutions. It describes
different types of social organisation that are found in a number
of African societies and analyses the principles underlying these
traditional forms of government. The volume represents the results
of field studies carried out by trained investigators in a number
of areas, and was compiled and edited under the auspices of the
International African Institute. It will be of interest to
students, anthropologists and administrators.
Social Anthropology explains and illustrates the methods of modern
anthropology, tracing its development from pre-nineteenth-century
philosophical speculations and the empirical work of explorers,
missionaries and colonial servants, up to the second half of the
twentieth century. First published in 1951.
The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
All social scientists, despite their differences on many issues,
ask causal questions about the world. In this anthology, Andrew P.
Vayda and Bradley B. Walters set forth strategy and methods to
answer those questions. The selected readings, all illuminating
causal explanation for social scientists, are not only by
anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and human ecologists but
also by philosophers, biologists, psychologists, historians, and
specialists in other fields. The essays will appeal to those doing
applied research on practical problems as well as those seeking
mainly to satisfy their curiosity about the causes of whatever
events or types of events interest them.
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The Gift (Hardcover)
Marcel Mauss; Translated by Ian Cunnison; E.E. Evans-Pritchard
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2011 Reprint of 1954 American Edition. Full facsimile of the
original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.
This is perhaps the first systematic study of the custom,
widespread in primitive societies from ancient Rome to present-day
Melanesia, of exchanging gifts. The gift is conceived as a
transaction forming part of all human, personal relationships
between individuals and groups. These gift exchanges are at the
same time moral, economic, juridical, aesthetic, religious,
mythological and social phenomena. A classic work.
2011 Reprint of 1954 American Edition. Full facsimile of the
original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.
This is perhaps the first systematic study of the custom,
widespread in primitive societies from ancient Rome to present-day
Melanesia, of exchanging gifts. The gift is conceived as a
transaction forming part of all human, personal relationships
between individuals and groups. These gift exchanges are at the
same time moral, economic, juridical, aesthetic, religious,
mythological and social phenomena. A classic work.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1969.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1969.
This acknowledged masterpiece has been abridged to make it more
accessible to students. In her introduction, Eva Gillies presents
the case for the relevance of the book to modern anthropologists.
Originally published in 1948, this book presents the content of the
Frazer Lecture in Social Anthropology for that year, which was
delivered by E. E. Evans-Pritchard at Cambridge University. This
book will be of value to anyone with an interest in anthropology
and the Nilotic peoples.
All social scientists, despite their differences on many issues,
ask causal questions about the world. In this anthology, Andrew P.
Vayda and Bradley B. Walters set forth strategy and methods to
answer those questions. The selected readings, all illuminating
causal explanation for social scientists, are not only by
anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and human ecologists but
also by philosophers, biologists, psychologists, historians, and
specialists in other fields. The essays will appeal to those doing
applied research on practical problems as well as those seeking
mainly to satisfy their curiosity about the causes of whatever
events or types of events interest them.
In this book E.E. Evans-Pritchard examines the various theories
which have been put forward by anthropologists to account for the
religions of primitive peoples-and, by implication, religion in
general.
This classic work, which involved the collaboration of leading
figures in the field of social anthropology, was the first to
undertake the comparative study of African politica systems, as an
example of the wider field of study of political institutions in
traditional societies in general, which is an important branch of
anthropology but which had not, until this book appeared, received
the attention it deserved. The book is based on field studies of
eight African societies: the Zulu, the Ngwato, the Bemba, the
Kingdom of Ankole, the Kede, the Bantu, the Tallensi, and the Nuer.
The continuing importance of the book lies in its illustration of
the application of the comparative method, in the accounts of
different African societies by distinguished anthropologists who
were instrumental in establishing the field, and in the unique
portrait it presents of traditional African societies at the end of
the colonial era, poised upon the brink of a time of great change.
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