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Essays on Social Organisation and Values

Raymond Firth author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:1st Jan '69

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Essays on Social Organisation and Values cover

Also available in paperback, 9780485196283 GBP17.99 (January, 1969)

In this volume Professor Firth has brought together and commented upon a number of his papers on anthropological subjects published over the last thirty years.In this volume Professor Firth has brought together and commented upon a number of his papers on anthropological subjects published over the last thirty years. All these essays relate in different ways to his continuing interest in the study of social process, especially in the significance within a social context of individual choice and decision. Although some specialist studies are included, e.g. the group of papers dealing with the Polynesian island of Tikopia, the main themes of the book are broad ones and there are important general essays on such topics as social change; social structure and organization; modern society in relation to scientific and technological progress; and the study of values, mysticism, and religion by anthropologists. There is also a hitherto unpublished chapter on anthropology as a developing science.

'[Firth] succeeds in bringing under the rubric of social organization and values a wide variety of topics.'Journal of Polynesian Society

ISBN: 9781859738948

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

334 pages