280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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There has been much discussion in recent years about the construction of theoretical models useful in the explanation of particular areas of social organization. This volume charts that discussion and its results and covers a wide ethnographic range from the Pacific Island of Truk through African pastoral societies, south-east Asia and Hong Kong, back to Polynesia.
First published in 1965.
Max Gluckman and Fred Eggan Introduction 1. Rethinking 'Status' and 'Role': Toward a General Model of the Cultural Organization of Social Relationships 2. David M. Schneider Some Muddles in the Models: or, How the System really Works 3. I.M. Lewis Problems in the Comparative Study of Unilineal Descent 4. Barbara E. Ward Varieties of the Conscious Model: The Fishermen of South China 5. Marshall D. Sahlins On the Sociology of Primitive Exchange
Biography
Michael Banton
