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The book is a translation of Louis Dumont's lectures on kinship, which provide a comprehensive but also idiosyncratic overview of descent theory and alliance theory for students. These two competing theories of kinship, associated respectively with the British and French schools of social anthropology, as well as the theoretical tendencies of functionalism and structuralism, dominated anthropological theory from the 1950s to the 1970s and are of fundamental historical significance.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Introduction to Two Theories of Social Anthropology
• Subtitle: Descent Groups and Marriage Alliance
• Author: Robert Parkin
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 148
• EAN: 9781845451462
• ISBN: 1845451465
• ID: 05097728
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Weight: 327 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 2006

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