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 alliance. After describing the region's history since 1845, Needham draws on his own ethnographic field research to examine the villages and their dependencies, the clans and their segmentation, rank, relationship terminology, and marriage practices.

Mamboru: History and Structure in a Domain of Northwestern Sumba

Politics & Social Sciences

Needham, Rodney

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

"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 field work as well as one's reading of published ethnographies more perceptive."—F. G. Lounsbury, American Anthropologist "A theoretical and methodological essay of first importance. As such, the book should be of interest to all social scientists interested in the development of specific and general theory in social anthropology."—Southwestern Social Science Quarterly

The Structure and Sentiment

University of Chicago Press

A very good+ copy. No dust jacket. Later printing. Cloth. 8vo. viii, 135 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. Recipient of the Monograph Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 1960.

Anthropology

134 white paperback, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, excellent copy

Structure and Sentiment

Belief, Language and Experience

Philosophy

Univ of Chicago Pr

Right and Left; Essays on Dual Symbolic Classification.

Remarks and Inventions

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 conventional approaches and criteria. Exploring analysis and method in the disparity between relative age and kinship categories as means of social classification, the book makes theoretical readjustments, largely inspired by the precepts of Wittgenstein. Originally published in 1971.

Remarks and Inventions: Skeptical Essays about Kinship

Routledge

Circumstantial Deliveries (Quantum Books)

University of California Press

Masks are found world-wide in connection with seasonal festivals, rites of passage, and curative ceremonies. They provide a means of investigating the paradoxical problems that appearances pose in the experience of transitional states. In this far-reaching work, A. David Napier studies mask iconography and the role played by masks in the realization of change. The masks of preclassical Greece¯in particular those of the Satyr and the Gorgon¯provide his starting point. A comparison of Greek to Eastern and especially Indian models follows, and the book concludes with an examination of the interpretation of Hindu ideas in Bali that demonstrates the importance of ambivalence in mask iconography.

Masks, Transformation, and Paradox

Arts & Photography

Napier, A. David David

History & Criticism

NEEDHAM, R,: AGAINST THE TRANQUILITY OF AXIOMS, BERKELEY, CA, 1983, xiv 182 p, Encuadernacion original, Nuevo,

Against the Tranquility of Axioms

Univ. Of California Pr.

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Mamboru: History and Structure in a Domain of Northwestern Sumba

The Structure and Sentiment

The Structure and Sentiment

Structure and Sentiment

Belief, Language and Experience

Right and Left; Essays on Dual Symbolic Classification.

Remarks and Inventions: Skeptical Essays about Kinship

Circumstantial Deliveries (Quantum Books)

Masks, Transformation, and Paradox

Against the Tranquility of Axioms