Mamboru: History And Structure In A Domain Of Northwestern Sumba

By Rodney Needham

Mamboru is a domain on the eastern Indonesian island of Sumba, which over the past two centuries has become well known both as a source of slaves and for its practice of asymmetric prescriptive all...

Essential Perplexities

By Rodney Needham

By Rodney Needham. An Inaugural Lecture Delivered ... University Of Oxford On 12 May 1977.

Primitive Classification

By Marcel Mauss, Émile Durkheim, Rodney Needham

Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss maintain that society is the source of the very categories of human thought. First published in the Anne Sociologique in 1903, this classic essay has been translated...

Structure And Sentiment: A Test Case For Social Anthropology

By Rodney Needham, Needham, Rodney

"Structure and Sentiment is an important book. Reading it may make an anthropologist more keenly aware of certain issues that are crucial in social anthropology, and this awareness may make one's f...

Structure And Sentiment: A Test Case In Social Anthropology.

By Rodney Needham

Right And Left; Essays On Dual Symbolic Classification.

By Rodney Needham, Edited And With An Introd. By Rodney Needham. Foreword By E. E. Evans-Pritchard

Essays By Hertz, Granet And Kruyt Translated By R. Needham; One By Chelhod Translated By J. J. Fox. Includes Bibliographies. Hertz, R. The Pre-eminence Of The Right Hand: A Stury In Religious Polar...

Cultural Change And Everyday Life

By David C. Chaney, David Chaney, Rodney Needham

It is generally accepted that the modern era has been a period of unprecedented cultural change. But what is the nature of this change and how has it impacted on our day-to-day experience? This lan...

Cultural Change And Everyday Life

By David C. Chaney, David Chaney, Rodney Needham

It is generally accepted that the modern era has been a period of unprecedented cultural change. But what is the nature of this change and how has it impacted on our day-to-day experience? This lan...

Remarks And Inventions: Skeptical Essays About Kinship

By Rodney Needham

This volume scrutinizes the questions of conceptualization, method and history in the fields of kinship, social anthropology and structuralism. It puts forward a radical revision of the conventiona...

Rethinking Kinship And Marriage

By Rodney Needham