Kinship and the Social Order

Kinship and the Social Order

Meyer Fortes

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2017
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Antropología social y cultural, etnografía
ISBN:
9781138526778

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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

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