From Triads to Pentads
From Triads to Pentads
N.J. ('Nick') Allen had an extensive academic career, which for the most part was spent in Oxford. He passed away in 2020. This edited volume brings together a selection of his anthropological papers. They cover two major fields and a supplementary one: Indo-European mythical comparison and his own notion of tetradic kinship, supplemented by a long-term interest in the work of Marcel Mauss and his uncle Emile Durkheim.It follows key areas of his research in which his contributions were novel, innovative, stimulating and plausible.
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