Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural AnthropologyA revised and updated edition of this unique best-selling guide to social and cultural anthropology. |
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... Trobriand Islands , when Bateson visited the Iatmul in New Guinea and when Evans - Pritchard went to live among the ... Trobriand Islands in the 1970s , therefore , she did not need to study every aspect of the Melanesian island society ...
... Trobriand Islands , when Bateson visited the Iatmul in New Guinea and when Evans - Pritchard went to live among the ... Trobriand Islands in the 1970s , therefore , she did not need to study every aspect of the Melanesian island society ...
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... Trobriand islanders , who were first studied by Malinowski during the First World War , are one of the most thoroughly studied matrilineal peoples in the world . The inhabitants of Kiriwina ( the largest of the Trobriand Islands ) are ...
... Trobriand islanders , who were first studied by Malinowski during the First World War , are one of the most thoroughly studied matrilineal peoples in the world . The inhabitants of Kiriwina ( the largest of the Trobriand Islands ) are ...
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... Trobriand Islands , there is no word for ' economy ' as an insti- tution separated from social life in general . When a man performs garden magic to make his yams grow , when he works hard for months just to give away his crop and when ...
... Trobriand Islands , there is no word for ' economy ' as an insti- tution separated from social life in general . When a man performs garden magic to make his yams grow , when he works hard for months just to give away his crop and when ...
Contents
Comparison and Context | 1 |
Fieldwork and Interpretation | 14 |
The Social Human | 30 |
Copyright | |
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