Social Organization and Peasant Societies: Festschrift in Honor of Raymond Firth

The essays included in Social Organization and Peasant Societies were written in honor of the man who taught their authors. Each entry is about different problems within the general field of "social organization."They were composed in many styles; and deal ethnographically with a heterogeneous collection of peoples and countries. Together they illustrate an important aspect of Firth's influence as a teacher: the range of his interests and his success in promoting social anthropological research on the broadest front. The breadth and the variety in the work of his students reflect Firth's own catholicity. From economics he reached into every corner of the field covered by social anthropology, and many of his interests can be traced in these essays on themes in kinship and marriage (by Baric, Benedict, Kaberry, and Leach) and on religious subjects (by Freedman, Morris, and Stanner). Still more detail the study of modern social change (by Little and Mayer). There is even one is on art (by Forge). Three are devoted to subjects in economic anthropology (by Belshaw, Swift, and Ward). On all of these varied and complex topics Raymond Firth has written extensively and taught untiringly. Many of the contributors to his festschrift are themselves leading anthropologists. Raymond Firth's importance in the history of social anthropology is undisputed. He came into the profession when it was small and unformed, when it existed only in the tiny groups of people around Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown. He urged it on, by intellectual leadership, by careful organization, and by devoted service. He was one of a small band of scholars; he created a large school. He inherited an esoteric seminar from Malinowski; he turned it into a great class where, over the years, hundreds of students marveled at his skill and learned their craft as analysts and field workers. His protege listened to his formulation of problems, his critique of methods, and his courteous but unrelenting dissection of arguments. In this book, their research is assembled as a tribute to the life and memory of Raymond Firth.

Politics & Social Sciences

FREEDMAN, Maurice

Social Sciences

Routledge

This book takes the argument first set out in Lineage Organization in South-Eastern China a step further. It incorporates some of Professor Freedman's field data (gathered in the Hong Kong New Territories in 1963) and draws on a wide variety of written sources. As in his first book on the subject, the author seeks to analyse certain crucial institutions of Chinese society within the framework of contemporary anthropological theory.

Chinese Lineage and Society: Fukien and Kwangtung (Monographs on Social Anthropology)

Humanities Pr

<p>Softback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition. no dust jacket</p>

Lineage Organization in Southeastern China (London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology : No. 18)

Anthropology

Athlone Pr

Chinese Lineage and Society: Fukien and Kwantung (London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology)

Bloomsbury Academic

First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Social Organisation: Essays Presented to Raymond Firth

History

The Study of Chinese Society: Essays

Stanford University Press

Main Trends in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Holmes & Meier Pub

Operating under the cover of a Code and Cypher "School," Bletchley Park was in fact the center for British code-breaking in World War II. Despite a rather thin cover, the Germans never guessed what was going on at Bletchley Park. These operations remained top-secret for over thirty years, concealing the true reasons for many key Allied decisions. This account covers code-breaking operations and techniques, the role of mathematical genius Alan Turing, and the development of early computers as a by-product of cryptography.

Unravelling Enigma: Winning the Code War at Station X

Military

Casemate Publishers

<p>Operating under the cover of a Code and Cypher "School," Bletchley Park was in fact the center for British code-breaking in World War II. Despite a rather thin cover, the Germans never guessed what was going on at Bletchley Park. These operations remained top-secret for over thirty years, concealing the true reasons for many key Allied decisions. This account covers code-breaking operations and techniques, the role of mathematical genius Alan Turing, and the development of early computers as a by-product of cryptography.</p>

Unravelling Enigma

Pen and Sword Military

L'antropologia culturale

Laterza

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