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Routledge Library Editions THE THEORY OF SOCIAL STRUCTURE ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY Routledge Library Editions Anthropology and Ethnography THEORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY In 10 Volumes I Political Systems and the Distribution of Power Banton II Marxist Analyses and Social Anthropology Bloch III Marxism and Anthropology Bloch IV The Observation of Savage Peoples Degerando V Primitive Law Past and Present Diamond VI Anthropology and the Greeks Humphreys VII Theory in Anthropology Manners & Kaplan VIII The Theory of Social Structure Nadel IX Readings in Early Anthropology Slotkin X Classification and Human Evolution Washburn THE THEORY OF SOCIAL STRUCTURE S F NADEL O Routledge Taylor & Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK First published in 1957 Reprinted in 2004 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, 0X14 4RN Transferred to Digital Printing 2009 Routledge is an imprint of the 'laylor & Francis Group All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. The publishers have made every effort to contact authors/copyright holders of the works reprinted in Routledge Library Editions — This has not been possible in every case, Anthropology and Ethnography. however, and we would welcome correspondence from those individuals/companies we have been unable to trace. These reprints are taken from original copies of each book. In many cases the condition of these originals is not perfect. The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of these reprints, but wishes to point out that certain characteristics of the original copies will, of necessity, be apparent in reprints thereof. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library The Theory of Social Structure ISBN 0-415-32556-0 (set) ISBN 0-415-33066-1 ISBN 9-781-13655-033-1 (ebk) Miniset: Theory of Anthropology Series: Routledge Library Editions - Anthropology and Ethnography Publisher’s Note The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original may be apparent. THE THEORY OF SOCIAL STRUCTURE by S. F. NADEL LATE PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY WITH A MEMOIR BY MEYER FORTES WILLIAM WYSE PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE COHEN & W EST LTD 30 PERCY STREET LONDON W. I 1 FIRST PUBLISHED 957 COPYRIGHT PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY BILLING AND SONS LIMITED, GUILDFORD AND LONDON PREFACE This book is in essence the somewhat enlarged version of a series of lectures which I gave, with the same title, at the London .1 School of Economics during the Lent Term of 1955 am greatly indebted to the Director of the School, Sir Alexander Carr- Saunders, for having invited me to do so. My greatest debt is to Professor Raymond Firth, with whom the idea of the lectures (and of their subject) originated. I owe a further debt, for many helpful comments and criticisms, to him as well as to other friends: Miss Elizabeth Bott, Dr. Phyllis Kaberry, Dr. J. A. Barnes, Mr. M. Freedman, and Professor I. Schapera. They will, I think, find most of the points they raised reflected in this final version of the lectures. If this is not true of every point it is not for want of attention on my part but because I felt, rightly or wrongly, that I could do justice to the issues concerned in my own fashion. S. F. N. , Canberra January 1956. This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE Preface v Memoir ix I Preliminaries i II Problems of Role Analysis 20 III Conformity and Deviance 45 IV The Coherence of Role Systems 63 V Degrees of Abstraction 97 VI Structure, Time and Reality 125 VII Conclusions: Structure and Function 153
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