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  • THE DYNAMICS OF CLANSHIP AMONG THE TALLENSI
    MEYER FORTES
    Originally published in 1945, this book analyses Tale social structure at the level of corporate group organization. Tale culture is discussed primarily as the content of social relations and not in its own right. Customs, beliefs, conventional usages, religious values are examined as indices of social relations. Although not a comparative study, it is clear that many features ...

    $899.00

  • KINSHIP AND THE SOCIAL ORDER
    MEYER FORTES
    One of the world's most eminent social anthropologists draws upon his many years of study and research in the field of kinship and social organization to review the development of anthropological theory and method from Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) to anthropologists of the 1960s. It is the central argument of this book that the structuralist theory and method developed by Bri...

    $1,179.00

  • KINSHIP AND THE SOCIAL ORDER.
    MEYER FORTES
    Originally published in the UK in 1970. The central argument of this book is that the structuralist theory and method developed by British and American anthropologists in the study of kinship and social organization are the direct descendants of the researches of Lewis Henry Morgan. Re-examining Morgan's work, the book demonstrates how a tradition of mis-interpretation has disg...

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  • THE WEB OF KINSHIP AMONG THE TALLENSI
    MEYER FORTES
    Originally published in 1949, this book takes the analysis of Tale social structure further. It shows how the patriarchal principle regulates domestic life and thus moulds individual development among the Tallensi. The analysis of the inter-connexion of Legal, econoic and personal relationships sheds new light on the general problems of social organization in patriarchal societ...

    $859.00