Rethinking anthropology
By: by E.R. Leach.
Series: Monographs on social anthropology -- no. 22
Publisher: Athlone Press; Humanities Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780485195224
Subjects: Kinship.; Marriage customs and rites.; Anthropology.
Description: This is a collection of the author's most important papers and include a remarkable logical exercise on Jinghpaw kinship terms as well as articles on theoretical problems of the concept of marriage.
Table of contents: title: 1. Rethinking anthropology; title: 2. Jinghpaw kinship terminolgy; title: 3. The structural implications of matrilateral cross-cousin marriage; title: 4. Polyandry, inheritance and the definition of marriage: with particular reference to Sinhalese customary law; title: 5. Aspects of bridewealth and marriage stability among the Kachin and Lakher; title: 6. Two essays concerning the symbolic representation of time.