Structure and Function in Primitive Society: Essays and Addresses

240 Pages·1952·11.34 MB·English

by  A. R. Radcliffe-Brown

STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
IN PRIMITIVE SOCIETY

STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
IN PRIMITIVE SOCIETY
Essays and Addresses
by
RADCLIFFE-BROWN
A. R.
PROFESSOR ElOERITUS OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY
With a Foreword by
EVANS-PRITCHARD
E. E.
PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, OXFORD UNIVERSITY
and
FRED EGGAN
PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY, CHICAGO UNIVERSITY
THE FREE PRESS
GLENCOE, ILLINOIS
1952
:
Acknowledgment for permission to print the essays and
addresses in this volume is hereby made to the following
The South African Association for the Advancement of
Science, the Iowa Law Review, the Royal Anthropological
Institute, the International African Institute, the Fourth
Pacific Science Congress, the Syndics of the Cambridge
UniversityPress, the American AnthropologicalAssociation
and the Macmillan Co., New York.
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