Rethinking Anthropology: Volume 22A collection of brilliant and provocative essays from Edmund Leach, one of the most original voices in the social anthropological tradition. |
Contents
1 RETHINKING ANTHROPOLOGY | 1 |
2 JINGHPAW KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY | 28 |
3 THE STRUCTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF MATRILATERAL CROSSCOUSIN MARRIAGE | 54 |
WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO SINHALESE CUSTOMARY LAW | 105 |
5 ASPECTS OF BRIDEWEALTH AND MARRIAGE STABILITY AMONG THE KACHIN AND LAKHER | 114 |
6 TWO ESSAYS CONCERNING THE SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF TIME | 124 |
References | 137 |
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affinal analysis argument aristocratic Ashanti Batak behaviour Bhamo bride brideprice bridewealth chief child clan complementary filiation cousin marriage Cronus cross-cousin marriage dama descent groups descent lines diagram Ego's essay ethnographic exogamous fact Father Right female Fortes Gauri Gilhodes gumsa headmen hkau hkri Hodson hpu-nau husband ideal individual Kachin type marriage kind kinship system kinship terminology Krige Lakher Leach Lévi-Strauss lineage linked local descent groups logical Lovedu male Malinowski marriage classes marry mayu mother's brother mother's brother's daughter mother's group Murngin mystical influence ning notion Ordinary Jinghpaw parents patrilineage patrilineal patrilocal group pattern persons political polyandry principle Professor Radcliffe-Brown reciprocal relation ritual seems senior sibling simply Sinhalese social anthropology society speaker status structure symbolic Tallensi theory Tikopia Trobriand type marriage system unilineal descent village Warner wife giving wife receivers wife's wives woman women