Category: Archaeology & Anthropology
These lectures were delivered at the London School of Economics in May of the present year. They are largely based on experience gained in the work of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to Melanesia of 1908, and give a simplified record of social conditions which will be descri...
It is more probable, however, that the use of descriptive terms in the languages of the Semites and of the Shilluks and Dinkas has been the outcome of a definite form of social...
1. Part 1These lectures were delivered at the London School of Economics in May of the present year. They are largely based on experience gained in the work of the Percy Sladen Trust Exp...
3. Part 3This idea was supported by the system of relationship of the Dieri of Australia which possesses at least one feature similar to those of Pentecost, a fact I happened to remember...
5. Part 5This leads me to question for a moment whether it may not be the same with that custom of our own society which Professor Kroeber has taken as his example of the psychological c...
4. Part 4The South Indian terms for cross-cousin and brother- and sister-in-law are complicated by the presence of distinctions dependent on the sex and relative age of those who use the...
2. Part 2In my own experience, then, among two different peoples, I have been able to establish a definite correlation between the presence of a term of relationship and special function...
7. Part 7Marriage, 1, 60; between brother and sister, 85; by exchange, 43; group-, 6, 86; regulation of, 67; with brother’s daughter, 89; with brother’s granddaughter, 34, 37, 56; with c...