Succession to High Office

Jack Goody, Goody

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology | nr. 4
• Positions of authority in any society are limited in number, and therefore rules of selection must operate in their recruitment. There must also be li... Lees meer

Caste Ideology and Interaction

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology | nr. 9
• Following the publication of the book by E. R. Leach, ed., Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-West Pakistan (1960), much additional inf... Lees meer

Questions and Politeness

Esther N Goody, Goody

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology | nr. 8
• These essays, by anthropologists and anthropological linguists, draw on material from speech communities in three continents to raise fundamental ques... Lees meer

Bridewealth and Dowry

Jack Goody, Stanley J Tambiah, S J Tambiah

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology | nr. 7
• Bridewealth and dowry have certain obvious similarities in that they both involve the transmission of property at marriage, the usual interpretation s... Lees meer

The Developmental Cycle in Domestic Groups

Jack Goody, Goody

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology | nr. 1
• Social scientists, when making their studies of the structure of family groups, have often observed the current situation of a particular group of fam... Lees meer

Councils in Action

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology | nr. 6
• A collection of seven papers by social anthropologists on the processes of decision-making in councils. Types of council described are one community-i... Lees meer

From Craft to Industry

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology | nr. 10
• The essays in this volume focus on two themes: the centrality of the production of and trade in cloth in the emergence of market activity; and the nat... Lees meer

Marriage in Tribal Societies

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology | nr. 3
• Continuing a policy of devoting a whole issue to a single topic, the third volume of the series deals with aspects of marriage in tribal societies. Th... Lees meer

Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-West Pakistan

Edmund Ronald Leach, E R Leach

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology | nr. 2
• When this book was originally published in paperback in 1971, one of the most hotly debated themes in Indian sociology was the meaning of the term cas... Lees meer

From Craft to Industry

• Hardcover | Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology
• The essays in this volume focus on two themes: the centrality of the production of and trade in cloth in the emergence of market activity; and the nat... Lees meer

Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies

Andrew Strathern

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology | nr. 11
• Now reissued in paperback with a new preface. The Highlands societies of Papua New Guinea, which have been studied intensively by numerous anthropolog... Lees meer

Bridewealth and Dowry

Jack Goody, S. J. Tambiah

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology
• In these insightful 1973 papers two leading authorities make a wide-ranging review of ideas and materials on bridewealth and dowry. Lees meer

Caste Ideology and Interaction

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology
• The four papers collected here and published in 1982 are all concerned with caste ideology and caste interaction in different locales of South Asia. Lees meer