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  • THE TODAS
    W. H. R. RIVERS
    The Todas is a book written by W. H. R. Rivers, a British anthropologist, and was first published in 1906. This anthropological work focuses on the Toda people, a small indigenous community living in the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India. The Todas are known for their distinctive culture, customs, and way of life. In this book, W. H. R. Rivers provides a comprehensive ethnographi...

    $39.70

  • KINSHIP AND SOCIAL ORGANISATION
    W. H. R. RIVERS
    W. H. R. Rivers, who has been called 'the founder of the modern study of social organization', exerted an immense influence on his contemporaries and successors. This volume reprints three of his lectures, delivered in 1913 and first published in 1914, which provide a short and brilliant exposition of his theoretical approach, and are exemplary of his handling of ethnographic e...

    $1,120.00

  • PSYCHOLOGY AND POLITICS
    W. H. R. RIVERS
    In applying psychology to the field of politics, the eminent British anthropologist and psychologist W.H.R. Rivers deals with social or collective psychology rather than with the psychology of the individual. This choice presents a number of problems. These include the relation between individual and collective psychology, the concept of a collective or group mind, and the ques...

    $1,360.00

  • CONFLICT AND DREAM
    W H R RIVERS
    This is Volume XXV of twenty-eight in a collection on Psychoanalysis. Originally published in 1932, the aim of this book is to give a sane interpretation of the significance of dreams based upon a thorough investigation of the incidents of each dream recorded and of the circumstances under which it occurred. Dr Rivers especially calls attention (a) to the inadequacy of Freud's ...

    $1,420.00

  • PSYCHOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY
    W H R RIVERS
    First published in 1999. This is Volume V of six of a series on Anthropology and Psychology. Written in 1928, this book is a collection of essays and series of memoirs on ethnological subjects that are scattered in volumes not readily accessible to students. ...

    $1,420.00

  • SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
    W.J. PERRY / W.H.R. RIVERS
    Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up to date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeol...

    $860.00

  • PSYCHOLOGY AND POLITICS
    W H R RIVERS
    First published in 1999. This is Volume VI of six of a series on Anthropology and Psychology. Written in 1923, this book is a collection of essays mainly on psychology and politics created when the author was made representative of the University of London at the House of Commons. ...

    $1,420.00

  • MEDICINE, MAGIC AND RELIGION
    W.H.R. RIVERS
    One of the most fascinating men of his generation, W.H.R. Rivers was a British doctor and psychiatrist as well as a leading ethnologist. Immortalized as the hero of Pat Barker's award-winning Regeneration trilogy, Rivers was the clinician who, in the First World War, cared for the poet Siegfried Sassoon and other infantry officers injured on the western front. His researches in...

    $520.00

  • KINSHIP AND SOCIAL ORGANISATION (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    W. H. R. RIVERS
    First published in 1914, W. H. R. Rivers' hugely influential study was the first to effectively demonstrate the close connection between methods of denoting relationship or kinship and forms of social organisation, including those based on different forms of the institution of marriage. He also shows that the terminology of relationship has been rigorously determined by social ...

    $1,160.00

  • MEDICINE, MAGIC AND RELIGION
    W. H. R. RIVERS
    This is Volume IV of six in a series in the International Library of Psychology on Anthropology and Psychology. Originally published in 1924, this is a collection of the Fitzpatrick Lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1915 and 1916 and it represents perhaps the first attempt to interpret with real knowledge and sympathetic insight the thoughts...

    $660.00