A translation of Louis Dumont’s lectures on kinship which provides a comprehensive overview of descent theory and alliance theory for students. This work features these two theories of kinship which…

A translation of Louis Dumont’s lectures on kinship, which provide a comprehensive overview of descent theory and alliance theory for students. This work features these two theories of kinship which…

The Rhodes Scholarships is a book written by George Robert Parkin in 1912. The book provides a detailed account of the history and establishment of the Rhodes Scholarships, a prestigious…

Round the empire for the use of schools - The Earl of Rosebery is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature…

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This book explores the interface between modernity and tradition in selected societies in Taiwan, mainland China and Vietnam. The chapters question to what extent traditions are themselves exploiting modernity in…

Outside France, French anthropology is conventionally seen as being dominated by grand theory produced by writers who have done little or no fieldwork themselves, and who may not even count…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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