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Rodney Needham
Rethinking Marriage and Kinship [PDF ebook]

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This volume is concerned with two of the fundamental topics of social anthropology, kinship and marriage, approached from a variety of viewpoints by an international group of contributors of diverse experience and background.
The wide range of subjects examined includes: Incest, epistemology, linguistics, prescriptive alliance and methodology.
Fieldwork from the following countries is drawn on: Burma, Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Australia, Africa and South America.

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Format PDF ● Pages 400 ● ISBN 9781136536335 ● Editor Rodney Needham ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2832936 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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