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  • Myths and Legends of the Andamans

    by A. R. Radcliffe Brown ...
    THE Andamanese have a number of stories which are told to the younger people by their elders and relate to the doings of their ancestors in a time long ago. Some of these stories are recorded in the present chapter. A difficulty in the way of giving any clear and readable account of them is the fact that there are many slightly different versions of one and the same legend. To some extent the ... Read more

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  • African Systems of Kinship and Marriage

    by A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, Daryll Forde ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1950 and this edition in 1987, this book is one of the most wide-ranging and respected surveys on kinship and marriage in African social life. In his introduction, Radcliff-Brown provides a masterly analysis of the main features of African kinship systems and the theoretical problems arising from the study of them. The contributions range from examinations of kinship systems ... Read more

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  • Myths And Legends Of The Andamans

    by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown ...
    Myths and Legends of the Andamansby A.R. Radcliffe-BrownAn excerpt from Radcliffe-Brown's classic ethnography, The Andaman Islanders.Myths and Legends of the Andamans was first published in 1922 under the authorship of A.R. Radcliffe Brown.The Andamanese have a number of stories which are told to the younger people by their elders and relate to the doings of their ancestors in a time long ago. ... Read more

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  • African Political Systems

    by Meyer Fortes ...
    One object we had in initiating this study was to provide a convenient reference book for anthropologists. We also hope that it will be a contribution to the discipline of comparative politics. We feel sure that the first object has been attained, for the societies described are representative of common types of African political systems and, taken together, they enable a student to appreciate the ... Read more

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  • Crime and Custom in Savage Society

    An Anthropological Study of Savagery

    by Bronislaw Malinowski ...
    Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (1884-1942) was a Polish-born anthropologist. Known for his ethnographic work in Oceania in the early twentieth century, his consequent publications in England and Europe earned him repute as a leading developer of social anthropology. Originally published in 1929, this book is regarded as a significant anthropological work of the twentieth century. Based on Malinowski ... Read more

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  • The Tiv of Central Nigeria

    Western Africa Part VIII

    by Laura Bohannan, Paul Bohannan ...
    Series Book 8 - Ethnographic Survey of Africa
    Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples.Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows:Physical ... Read more

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  • Masks of Conquest

    Literary Study and British Rule in India

    by Gauri Viswanathan ...
    A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies are as diverse and diffuse as its future shape. In her new preface, Gauri Viswanathan argues forcefully that the curricular study of English can no ... Read more

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  • The Group Mind: A Sketch of the Principles of Collective Psychology

    by William McDougall ...
    "Until the later decades of the nineteenth century, psychology continued to concern itself almost exclusively with the mind of man conceived in an abstract fashion, not as the mind of any particular individual, but as the mind of a representative individual considered in abstraction from his social settings as something given to our contemplation fully formed and complete..." William McDougall was ... Read more

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  • Enslaved Daughters

    Colonialism, Law and Women’s Rights

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  • The Position of Woman in Primitive Society: A Study of the Matriarchy

    by Catherine Gasquoine Hartley ...
    The twentieth century is the age of Woman; some day, it may be that it will be looked back upon as the golden age, the dawn, some say, of feminine civilisation. We cannot estimate as yet; and no man can tell what forces these new conditions may not release in the soul of woman. The modern change is that the will of woman is asserting itself. Women are looking for a satisfactory life, which is to ... Read more

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  • The Origin and Growth of Village Communities In India

    by Baden Henry Baden-powell ...
    The Origin and Growth of Village Communities In India by Baden Henry Baden-Powell. The object of this little book is to explain, the nature and origin of Indian village communities, with special reference to the commonly received theories about them.Many people have heard vaguely that the villages represent an ancient “communal” holding of land; others have heard that this theory has been much ... Read more

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