First published in 1914, W. H. R. Rivers' hugely influential study was the first to effectively demonstrate the close connection between methods of denoting relationship or kinship and forms of social organisation, including those based on different forms of the institution of marriage. He also shows that the terminology of relationship has been rigorously determined by social conditions and that, therefore, systems of relationship furnish us with a most valuable instrument in studying the history of social institutions.
This series of lectures was originally delivered by the author in May 1914, at the London School of Economics. They are based on the experiences of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to Melanesia in 1908.
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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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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 marriageĀ 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