From Triads to Pentads
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Edited by:
Robert Parkin
About this book
N.J. (‘Nick’) Allen had an extensive academic career, which for the most part was spent in Oxford. He passed away in 2020. This edited volume brings together a selection of his anthropological papers. They cover two major fields and a supplementary one: Indo-European mythical comparison and his own notion of tetradic kinship, supplemented by a long-term interest in the work of Marcel Mauss and his uncle Émile Durkheim.It follows key areas of his research in which his contributions were novel, innovative, stimulating and plausible.
Author / Editor information
Robert Parkin taught anthropology at Oxford from 2002 to 2017, when he retired. He previously taught at the University of Kent and the Free University of Berlin. His main research interests are the tribal populations of India, kinship, the history of French anthropology, and politics and identity along the German-Polish border.
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgements and Conventions
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Introduction
1 - Part I. Structuralism
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Chapter 1 ON THE NOTION OF STRUCTURE
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Chapter 2 HIERARCHICAL OPPOSITION AND SOME OTHER TYPES OF RELATION
59 - Part II. Georges Dumézil and Indo-European Comparativism
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Chapter 3 DEBATING DUMÉZIL
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Chapter 4 QUADRIPARTITION OF SOCIETY IN EARLY TIBETAN SOURCES
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Chapter 5 THE IDEOLOGY OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS
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Chapter 6 THE CATEGORY OF SUBSTANCE
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Chapter 7 WHY DID ODYSSEUS BECOME A HORSE?
145 - Part III. The Tetradic Theory of Kinship
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Chapter 8 A DANCE OF RELATIVES
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Chapter 9 TETRADIC THEORY
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Chapter 10 ASSIMILATION OF ALTERNATE GENERATIONS
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Chapter 11 TETRADIC THEORY AND OMAHA SYSTEMS
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Chapter 12 THE DIVISION OF LABOUR AND THE NOTION OF PRIMITIVE SOCIETY
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CONCLUSION
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INDEX
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