The Relevance of Models for Social Anthropology

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 pa...

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Main Author Banton, Michael
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Routledge 1965
Taylor and Francis
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition1
SeriesRoutledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography
Subjects
Anthropology
Anthropology - Soc Sci
Methodology
Prescriptive Systems
Lineage Segmentation
Cross-cousin Marriage
Cyrenaican Bedouin
Positive Marriage Rule
scale
rule
type
Descent Group
Primitive Money
Conscious Model
relationships
Dualistic Symbolic Classification
marriage
identity
Associational Psychology
Alliance Theory
Descent Rule
cross-cousin
National Academy
Descent Units
combination
Marriage Rule
Kau Sai
Unilineal Descent
Complementary Filiation
Single Status Dimension
Prescriptive Alliance
positive
Segmentary Lineage Organization
Terminological Pattern
Balanced Reciprocity
Lineal Descent Groups
Folk Taxonomies
duty
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Summary: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.
ISBN:9780415330275
0415866553
9780415866552
0415330270
DOI:10.4324/9781315017624