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WHR Rivers has been called 'the founder of the modern study of social organization'. This volume reprints three of his lectures, delivered in 1913 and first published in 1914, which provide an exposition of his theoretical approach, and are exemplary of his handling of ethnographic evidence.

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W. H. R. Rivers has been called 'the founder of the modern study of social organization' and was immensely influential on his contemporaries and successors. Professor Raymond Firth teaches at the London School of Economics and Professor David Schneider at the University of Chicago.

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  • Publication date1968
  • ISBN 10 0485195348
  • ISBN 13 9780485195347
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  • Number of pages116

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ Dust Jacket. London: The Athlone Press / University of London , 1968. Bright, clean, square, tight copy. Dust Jacket is lightly rubbed at the corners. Jacket is NOT price clipped (30s net). No chips. No tears. No creases. Corner of free front endpaper clipped. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology, No. 34. Illustrated with 5 diagrams. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original orange cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. Sharp corners. From the Dust Jacket: "This volume reprints three of [Rivers's] lectures, delivered in 1913 and first published in 1914, which provide a short and brilliant exposition of his theoretical approach, and are exemplary of his handling of ethnographic evidence. His theme is the relationship between kinship terminologies and social organizations, more particularly forms of marriage Also included is the same author's THE GENEALOGICAL METHOD OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ENQUIRY, first published in 1910, a classic of anthropological methodology, and Professor Raymond Firth of the London School of Economics and Professor David M. Schneider of the University of Chicago provide commentaries estimating the past and present importance of Rivers in British and American Anthropology respectively." . 1st Collected ed, with new commentaries. Hard Cover. Fine condition./Very Good+ Dust Jacket. 8vo. vi, 118pp. 1st Collected ed, with new commentaries. Seller Inventory # 003959

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