Man in Africa
by Mary Douglas
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Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: show more Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1969 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection. show lessTags
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Common Knowledge
- Dedication
- Essays affectionately dedicated to Daryll Forde in gratitude for all he has given us
- First words
- When, back in the late forties, Daryll Forde and his collaborators decided to make a survey of all ethnographic information 'based on original field studies, as well as on published sources', and concerning social and cultura... (show all)l phenomena of traditional Africa, they were confronted with the preliminary problem of the units of division and classification of these phenomena.
- Quotations
- ...law is always embedded in the political process. [p. xvi]
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I do not suggest that studying animal diseases and extrapolating to Man is an easy matter, but it is certainly a worthwhile and seemingly neglected one and, as I have said, Africa will have its part to play in this field as in the others I have outlined.
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- Anthropology, Sociology, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 301.29 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Sociology and anthropology Formerly: Culture and cultural processes Ethnography, By Region
- LCC
- GN645 .M33 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Anthropology Anthropology Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology Ethnic groups and races By region or country
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