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  • Ngaju Religion

    The Conception of God among a South Borneo People

    by Hans Schärer ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)

    $80.09 USD

  • Remarks and Inventions

    Skeptical Essays about Kinship

    by Rodney Needham ...
    This volume scrutinizes the questions of conceptualization, method and history in the fields of kinship, social anthropology and structuralism. It puts forward a radical revision of the conventional approaches and criteria. Exploring analysis and method in the disparity between relative age and kinship categories as means of social classification, the book makes theoretical readjustments, largely ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Types of Social Structure in Eastern Indonesia

    by Franciscus Antonius Evert Wouden ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    BY G. W. LOCHER Some years ago, in a discussion of the modern concept of structure, Levi-Strauss contended that the extraordinarily widespread employment of the term "structure" since 1930 reflected a rediscovery of the concept and the term rather than the continuation of a prior usage. This assertion may be correct in general, but it does not apply to the N ether lands, at least nOlI: so far as ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Rethinking Marriage and Kinship

    Edited by Rodney Needham ...
    This volume is concerned with two of the fundamental topics of social anthropology, kinship and marriage, approached from a variety of viewpoints by an international group of contributors of diverse experience and background. The wide range of subjects examined includes: Incest, epistemology, linguistics, prescriptive alliance and methodology. Fieldwork from the following countries is drawn on: ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Death and the right hand

    by Robert Hertz ...
    Translated by Claudia Needham, Rodney Needham ...
    First published in English 1960. The historical value of Hertz's writings is that they are a representative example of the culmination of two centuries of development of sociological thought in France, from Montesquieu to Durkheim and his pupils. In the intervening years since publication, that development has grown into the systematic comparative study of primitive institutions, based on a great ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    by George William Gilmore ...
    THE result of recent historical studies, whether on anthropological, sociological, archeological, or religious lines, has brought into ever clearer vision as the substratum of all civilizations that stage of culture from which this book takes its title. One consequence is: general recognition of animism as a life factor, the power of which is not yet exhausted, the study of which fascinates ... Read more

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  • Elements of Folk Psychology: Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind

    by Wilhelm Wundt ...
    The word 'Völkerpsychologie'(folk psychology) is a new compound in our [the German] language. It dates back scarcely farther than to about the middle of the nineteenth century. In the literature of this period, however, it appeared with two essentially different meanings. On the one hand, the term 'folk psychology' was applied to investigations concerning the relations which the intellectual, ... Read more

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  • On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia

    by Sigmund Freud ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our 'primitive' past and 'civilized' modernity. In Totem and Taboo he explores institutions of tribal life, tracing analogies between the rites of hunter-gatherers and the obsessions of urban-dwellers, while Mourning and ... Read more

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  • Primitive Mythology

    by Joseph Campbell ...
    Series Book 1 - The Masks of God™
    Explore the power of myth as humanity first discovered itCollected Works of Joseph Campbell edition — with up-to-date scienceIn this first volume of The Masks of God — Joseph Campbell’s major work of comparative mythology — the preeminent mythologist looks at the wellsprings of myth. From the earliest expressions of religious awe in pre-modern humans to the rites and art of contemporary primal ... Read more

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  • What Kinship Is-And Is Not

    by Marshall Sahlins ...
    In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Aristotle and Lévy- Bruhl to Émile Durkheim and David Schneider, and communities from the Maori and the English to the Korowai of New Guinea, he draws on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Local Knowledge

    Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology

    by Clifford Geertz ...
    From the preeminent anthropologist, a landmark exploration of how culture shapes human society“Shrewd and often illuminating."—New York TimesOver his storied career, Clifford Geertz pioneered ground-breaking approaches to anthropology, arguing that interpreting and analyzing cultural symbols was central to understanding a wide range of societies. In Local Knowledge, he revisits and expands the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays

    by Bronislaw Malinowski ...
    This vintage book comprises three famous Malinowski essays on the subject of religion. Malinowski is one of the most important and influential anthropologists of all time. He is particularly renowned for his ability to combine the reality of human experience, with the cold calculations of science. An important collection of three of his most famous essays, "Magic, Science and Religion" provides ... Read more

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