AN INTRODUCTION TO TWO THEORIES OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY by Robert Parkin ( 9781845451462 )

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AN INTRODUCTION TO TWO THEORIES OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
DESCENT GROUPS AND MARRIAGE ALLIANCE

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Robert Parkin

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BERGHAHN BOOKS

Pub. date:

12 April, 2006

Series:

Methodology & History in Anthropology 12

Pages:

148

Translated from:

French

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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 are associated with the British and French schools of social anthropology, as well as the theoretical tendencies of functionalism and structuralism.

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Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, was one of the most important figures in post-war French anthropology. He is well-known for his early work on India, which culminated in Homo Hierarchicus (1966; in English 1972, 1980), an anthropological account of the caste system. He later extended this work into a comparison of the values of Indian and western society in works like Essays on Individualism (1986) and German ideology: From France to Germany and Back (1994). He is also known for pioneering work on kinship in south India and more generally (for example Affinity as a Value, 1983). The current volume represents the fruits of this side of his activities and originated in as a series of lectures providing an account of the British and French schools for students.

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