An Introduction to Two Theories of Social Anthropology

Descent Groups and Marriage Alliance

By: Robert Parkin

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Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, was one of the most important figures in post-war French anthropology. He is well-known for his early work on India, which culminated in Homo Hierarchicus (1966; in English 1972, 1980), an anthropological account of the caste system. He later extended this work into a comparison of the values of Indian and western society in works like Essays on Individualism (1986) and German ideology: From France to Germany and Back (1994). He is also known for pioneering work on kinship in south India and more generally (for example Affinity as a Value, 1983). The current volume represents the fruits of this side of his activities and originated in as a series of lectures providing an account of the British and French schools for students.

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Kinship in the work of Radcliffe-Brown
What is kinship?	p. 3
The meaning of 'kinship system'	p. 7
Interpersonal relations and 'structural principles'	p. 18
The theory of unilineal descent groups
Before The Nuer	p. 29
Evans-Pritchard : The Nuer	p. 35
After The Nuer	p. 50
The theory of marriage alliance
Levi-Strauss : Elementary structures	p. 61
After Elementary structures	p. 88
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