3rd Edition
Social and Cultural Anthropology in Perspective Their Relevance in the Modern World
By Ioan M. Lewis
Copyright 2003
444 Pages
by
Routledge
444 Pages
by
Routledge
408 Pages
by
Routledge
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Social anthropology is, in the classic definition, dedicated to the study of distant civilizations in their traditional and contemporary forms. But there is a larger aspiration: the comparative study of all human societies in the light of those challengingly unfamiliar beliefs and customs that expose our own ethnocentric limitations and put us in our place within the wider gamut of the world's... Read more
CHAPTER ONE Aims and Methods CHAPTER TWO The Rise of Modern Social Anthropology CHAPTER THREE Misfortune and the Consolations of Witchcraft CHAPTER FOUR The Natural Order CHAPTER FIVE Myth, Rite and Eschatology CHAPTER SIX Patrimony and Patriotism CHAPTER SEVEN Exchange and Market CHAPTER EIGHT Vital Statistics: Marriage and Kinship CHAPTER NINE Power at the Centre CHAPTER TEN The Law of the Jungle CHAPTER ELEVEN Anthropology and the Contemporary World
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Lewis, Ioan
