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... Kachin of upper Burma practise exogamy at the level of the patri- lineage ( Leach 1954 ) . Their rules for wife exchange reveal a more complex and more hierarchical social organisation than that of the Yanomamö . Among the Kachin , wife ...
... Kachin of upper Burma practise exogamy at the level of the patri- lineage ( Leach 1954 ) . Their rules for wife exchange reveal a more complex and more hierarchical social organisation than that of the Yanomamö . Among the Kachin , wife ...
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... Kachin ( 1954 ) . Contrary to what his teachers had told him , Leach discovered that the religious - ritual complex among the Kachin in no way functioned in an integrating way ; that it rather spurred dissension and imbalance ...
... Kachin ( 1954 ) . Contrary to what his teachers had told him , Leach discovered that the religious - ritual complex among the Kachin in no way functioned in an integrating way ; that it rather spurred dissension and imbalance ...
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An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology Thomas Hylland Eriksen. the Kachin , or the principles of political organisation among the Nuer , without regarding them as ' superior ' or ' inferior ' to our own . It is also ...
An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology Thomas Hylland Eriksen. the Kachin , or the principles of political organisation among the Nuer , without regarding them as ' superior ' or ' inferior ' to our own . It is also ...
Contents
Comparison and Context | 1 |
Fieldwork and Interpretation | 14 |
The Social Human | 30 |
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