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Title: The Translation of Culture : Essays to E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Description: London, Tavistock Publications, 1971. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, ix,440 pp. PAPERBACK. Name inked on flyleaf.. Some rubbing. Some pencilled underlinings & notes. Good. ¶ A festschrift containing 15 papers. Includes: John Barnes "The Righthand & Lefthand Kingdoms of God: A Dilemma of Pietist Politics"; Elizabeth Colson "Heroism, Martyrdom & Courage: An Essay on Tonga Ethics"; James J. Fox "A Rotinese Dynastic Genealogy: Structure & Event"; Kathleen Gough " Nuer Kinship: A Re-examination"; C.R. Hallpike "Some Problems in Cross-Cultural Comparison"; David Hicks "A Structural Model of Aweikoma Society"; Claude Lévi-Strauss "Rapports entre symétrie entre rites et mythes de peuples voisins"; John Middleton "Prophets & Rainmakers: The Aspects of Social Change among the Lugbara"; Rodney Needham "Penan Friendship-names"; Julian Pitt-Rivers "On the Word 'caste'"; Peter Rigby "The Symbolic Role of Cattle in Gogo Ritual"; Peter Riviere "The Political Structure of the Trio Indians as Manifested in a System of Ceremonial Dialogue"; Eric ten Raa " The Genealogical Methods in the Analysis of Myth, & a Structural Model"; Victor W. Turner "An Anthropological Approach to the Icelandic Saga"; T.O. Beidelman "Nuer Priests & Prophets: Charisma, Authority, & Power among the Nuer".

Keywords: Social Anthropology, Ethnology, Ethnolography, Sociology, Kinship, , , ,

Price: US$ 49.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS018314I