The Invention of Primitive Society: Transformations of an IllusionBoth a critical history of anthropological theory and methods and a challenging essay in the sociology of science, The Invention of Primitive Society shows how anthropologists have tried to define the original form of human society. |
Contents
Patriarchal theory | 19 |
Lewis Henry Morgan and ancient society | 63 |
The question of totemism | 76 |
Australian totemism | 92 |
Totem and taboo | 109 |
Academic anthropologists | 123 |
The Boasians and the critique of evolutionism | 131 |
Rivers and Melanesian society | 155 |
The reaction to Rivers | 171 |
a phoenix from the ashes | 203 |
A short history of alliance theory | 223 |
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Other editions - View all
The Invention of Primitive Society: Transformations of an Illusion Adam Kuper No preview available - 1988 |
Common terms and phrases
alliance theory Ambrym American Ancient Law argued argument Australian believed Boas Boas's Boasians British brother Cambridge civilization clan classic classificatory system cousin marriage critique cross-cousin marriage culture Darwin descent groups descent theory dual organization Durkheim Engels essay ethnographic ethnology Evans-Pritchard evidence evolution evolutionary evolutionist exchange exogamy father's fieldwork Fison Fortes Franz Boas Frazer German group marriage Howitt human idea of primitive Indian individual institutions intellectual Iroquois Kachin kinship terminologies Kroeber Kwakiutl language later Leach Lévi-Strauss Lewis Henry Morgan lineage system Lubbock Maine Maine's Malinowski marriage classes marry McIlvaine McLennan Melanesian moiety natural Nuer original patriarchal patrilineal political polyandry primitive society principles progress published Radcliffe-Brown radical relationship religion religious Rivers Robertson Smith Roman segmentary segmentary lineage sisters social organization social structure species Spencer stage Tallensi totemism tradition transformations tribes Turanian Tylor unilineal descent Westermarck wrote
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Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory Professor Mary Douglas,Mary Douglas No preview available - 2002 |
Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning David Theo Goldberg No preview available - 1993 |