8vo. xi (ii), 288 pp, list of tables, list of figures, map, preface, 1. Introduction; 2. Economic Anthropology of Mediterranean Societies; 3. Stratification; 4. Politics; 5. Family and Kinship; 6. Anthropologists and History in the Mediterranean; notes, bibliography, index. Library of Man series: First Edition, 1977. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. ``The Mediterranean countries have long attracted the attention of social anthropologists, from Frazer and Durkheim to the present day. In this volume, first published in 1977, the author reviews the extensive anthropological material collected and published by people who have worked in the area and claims that social anthropologists have a distinctive opportunity to compare similar kinds of institution and process in a variety of contexts: political, economic, bureaucratic, religious. He examines countries, tribes and communities stretching from Spain all the way round the Mediterranean and back along the coast of North Africa. In chapters on economics, stratification, politics, family and kinship, he has found it possible and sensible to set Albanian and Berber tribesmen beside each other, and to discuss Italian and Lebanese peasants in the same paragraph. The result is both a survey of the anthropological material and an essay in comparison, founded on a critique of the work of his predecessors and colleagues. The last chapter is an account of the uses anthropologists have made of the historical sources available to them."

People of the Mediterranean: An Essay in Comparative Social Anthropology

Politics & Social Sciences

Davis, John H. R.

Social Sciences

Routledge& Kegan Paul

The Warden's Punishment Book is a record of punishments imposed on the Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford, for minor infringements of the statutes and of College discipline, from its inception in 1601 until 1851. It is a unique document in terms of its scope and detail among the College records of Oxford and Cambridge and provides significant insights into the daily life and personal relationships of such an institution during the early modern period. This volume presents an edition of the text of the Punishment Book, with a substantial biographical register detailing the careers of those mentioned as punishers or punished. An introduction explains the significance and context of the Punishment Book within collegiate, university, and social history. Scott Mandelbrote is Fellow, Perne Librarian, and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, he was formerly Fellow and Sub-Warden of All Souls College, Oxford; John H.R. Davis is an Honorary Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, of which he was Warden between 1995 and 2008. He is an anthropologist and was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and, before that, at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

The Warden's Punishment Book of All Souls College, Oxford, 1601-1850 (Oxford Historical Society New Series, 45)

History

Mandelbrote, Scott

Europe

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