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TL;DR: Rolands Barthes as mentioned in this paper, Selected and translated by Stephen Heath. New York: Schocken Books, 1979. 60 pp. Introductory note, index, and abstract.
Abstract: Roland Barthes. Image‐Music‐Text. Essays selected and translated by Stephen Heath. New York: Hill and Wang, 1977. 220 pp. Introductory note, index. $4.95, paper. Claude Levi‐Strauss. Myth and Meaning. New York: Schocken Books, 1979. 60 pp. Introductory note. $2.95, paper.

18 citations


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TL;DR: Oswald et al. as discussed by the authors presented a study of the CIS-INAH (Centro de Investigaciones Superiores del Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia).
Abstract: Ursula Oswald, Coordinadora. Mercado y Dependencia. CIS‐INAH (Centro de Investigaciones Superiores del Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia): Editorial Nueva Imagen. 409 pages.

9 citations



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TL;DR: Ingersoll, Johne E. Yellen and William MacDonald as discussed by the authors, ed., Experimental Archaeology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. xviii + 423 pp.
Abstract: Daniel Ingersoll, Johne E. Yellen and William MacDonald, eds. Experimental Archaeology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. xviii + 423 pp. preface, introduction, figures, illustrations, index.

4 citations


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Leopold Pospisil1
TL;DR: Sally Falk Moore as discussed by the authors presents an anthropological approach to the Law as Process: An Anthropological Approach. London, Henley and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978. vi + 270 pp.
Abstract: Sally Falk Moore. Law as Process: An Anthropological Approach. London, Henley and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978. vi + 270 pp. $15.00, cloth.

3 citations


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TL;DR: Kusum Nair and Morton Klass as mentioned in this paper described the Village Entrepreneur: Change Agents in India's Rural Development. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Maps, tables, appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography and index.
Abstract: Morton Klass. From Field to Factory: Community Structure and Industrialization in West Bengal. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1978. 264 pp. Maps, figures, photographs, bibliography and index. $18.50. Wayne G. Broehl, Jr. The Village Entrepreneur: Change Agents in India's Rural Development. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. vi + 154 pp. Map, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $17.00. Kusum Nair. In Defense of the Irrational Peasant: Implications for Agricultural Policy after the Green Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. xxi + 154 pp. Maps, tables, appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $22.10.

2 citations


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TL;DR: Foulks, Ronald M. Wintrob, Joseph Westermeyer, and Armando R. Favazza as mentioned in this paper have published a survey of the state of the art in cultural psychiatry.
Abstract: Edward F. Foulks, Ronald M. Wintrob, Joseph Westermeyer, and Armando R. Favazza, eds. Current Perspectives in Cultural Psychiatry. New York: Spectrum Publications (distributed by Halsted Press), 1977. 275 pp. $20.00.

1 citations


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TL;DR: Gerald D. Berreman as mentioned in this paper, Caste and Other Inequities: Essays on Inequality. Meerut, India, Folklore Institute: 1979. xvii + 325 pp.
Abstract: Gerald D. Berreman. Caste and Other Inequities: Essays on Inequality. Meerut, India, Folklore Institute: 1979. xvii + 325 pp. $10.00.

1 citations


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TL;DR: Aceves and Douglass as discussed by the authors described the changing faces of rural Spain and the modernization of a Spanish village, focusing on migration, kinship, and community in two Spanish Basque villages.
Abstract: Joseph Aceves. Social Change in a Spanish Village. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Schenkman Publishing Company, 1971. Joseph B. Aceves and William A. Douglass, eds. The Changing Faces of Rural Spain. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Schenkman Publishing Company, 1976. Richard A. Barrett. Benabarre. The Modernization of a Spanish Village. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. Stanley H. Brandes. Migration, Kinship, and Community. Tradition and Transition in a Spanish Village. New York: Academic Press, 1975. William A. Douglass. Echalar and Murelaga. Opportunity and Rural Exodus in Two Spanish Basque Villages. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975.

1 citations


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TL;DR: Willey, Gordon R., and Norman Hammond, ed. as discussed by the authors, discuss the second Cambridge Symposium on Recent Research in Meso-american Archaeology and Ethnohistory.
Abstract: Willey, Gordon R., and Norman Hammond, eds. Maya Archaeology and Ethnohistory. Second Cambridge Symposium on Recent Research in Mesoamerican Archaeology, 1976.

1 citations


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TL;DR: Barth, Fredrik, ed. as discussed by the authors, Scale and Social Organization. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, and New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. $20.00, paper
Abstract: Barth, Fredrik, ed. Scale and Social Organization. Oslo: Universitets‐forlaget, and New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. $20.00, paper.

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TL;DR: The Untouchable Community in South India: Structure and Consensus as mentioned in this paper, by James M. Freeman, Michael M. Moffatt, and G. Kannan, 1979.
Abstract: James M. Freeman. Untouchable: An Indian Life History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1979. vii + 421 pp. Photographs, note on transliteration, appendices, bibliography, and glossary‐index. $22.50. Michael Moffatt. An Untouchable Community in South India: Structure and Consensus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. xliii + 323 pp. Tables, maps, figures, glossary, note on orthography, bibliography, and index. $22.50.

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TL;DR: In this article, Hal B. Levine and Marlene Wolfzahn Levine present a study of urbanization in Papua New Guinea: A Study of Ambivalent Townsmen, ed. T. J. May.
Abstract: Hal B. Levine and Marlene Wolfzahn Levine. Urbanization in Papua New Guinea: A Study of Ambivalent Townsmen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. 160 pp. $21.50. T. J. May, ed. Change and Movement: Readings on Internal Migration in Papua New Guinea. Canberra: Australian National University Press, for Papua New Guinea Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, 1978. xii + 284 pp. $21.95, Aust.

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TL;DR: The Todas as discussed by the authors is a collection of the most important documents in the history of genealogical research, including genealogies, glossaries, genealogy tables, photographs and index.
Abstract: W. H. R. Rivers. The Todas. London and New York: Macmillan, 1906. xviii + 755 pp. Preface, appendices, glossary, genealogical tables, photographs and index. Reprint edition: New York, Humanities Press, 1967.


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TL;DR: Miriam Sharma as mentioned in this paper, The Politics of Inequality: Competition and Control in an Indian Village. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1978. xvii + 258 pp. Map, figures, charts, tables, glossary, bibliogra...
Abstract: Miriam Sharma. The Politics of Inequality: Competition and Control in an Indian Village. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1978. xvii + 258 pp. Map, figures, charts, tables, glossary, bibliogra...

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TL;DR: Mircea Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas, Volume I. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1990....,.. and.
Abstract: Mircea Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas, Volume I. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.


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TL;DR: Gordon Brotherston as mentioned in this paper presents an image of the New World: The American Continent Portrayed in Native Texts. Translations prepared in collaboration with Ed Dorn, with 118 documentary texts and illustrations. London: Thames and Hudson, 1979.
Abstract: Gordon Brotherston. Image of the New World: The American Continent Portrayed in Native Texts. Translations prepared in collaboration with Ed Dorn, with 118 documentary texts and illustrations. London: Thames and Hudson, 1979. 324 pp.

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TL;DR: S. L. Washburn and Elizabeth R. McCown, eds.
Abstract: S. L. Washburn and Elizabeth R. McCown, eds. Human Evolution, Biosocial Perspectives. Menlo Park, California: Benjamin/Cummings, 1978. 316 pp. $16.95.

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TL;DR: Ray C. Rist as mentioned in this paper, The Invisible Children: School Integration in American Society. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1978, p. 278 pp, ISBN 978-0.
Abstract: Ray C. Rist. The Invisible Children: School Integration in American Society. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1978. 278 pp.

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TL;DR: The Vedda Villages of Anuradhapura: The Historical Anthropology of a Community in Sri Lanka by James Brow as mentioned in this paper is a good starting point for this paper.
Abstract: James Brow. Vedda Villages of Anuradhapura: The Historical Anthropology of a Community in Sri Lanka. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1978. xv + 268 pp. Maps, photographs, figures, bibliography and index. $15.00.

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TL;DR: Hogbin this paper, The Leaders and the Led: Social Control in Wogeo, New Guinea, 1978, published by Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Australia, 1978.
Abstract: Ian Hogbin. The Leaders and the Led: Social Control in Wogeo, New Guinea. Melbourne University Press, 1978.

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TL;DR: Nancy Scheper‐Hughes.
Abstract: Nancy Scheper‐Hughes. Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics. Mental Illness in Rural Ireland. Berkeley: Univerisity of California Press, 1979. xiv + 245 pp., $14.95.

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TL;DR: Humphreys as mentioned in this paper, C.S. C. Humphreys. Anthropology and the Greeks. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978. xi + 357 pp.
Abstract: S. C. Humphreys. Anthropology and the Greeks. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978. xi + 357 pp. $23.95, cloth.

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TL;DR: In this article, a Kannada System of Address (SOSA) is presented, which is based on the Symbolic and Pragmatic Semantics (SPS) language.
Abstract: Susan S. Bean. Symbolic and Pragmatic Semantics; A Kannada System of Address. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1978. xvi +163 pp. Tables, figures, appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $17.00.

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TL;DR: Redfield as mentioned in this paper, The Little Community and Peasant Society and Culture, 1961, Chicago: University Press, 1961 (Phoenix Paperback P53). 265 pp., $2.25.
Abstract: Robert Redfield. The Little Community and Peasant Society and Culture. Chicago: University Press, 1961 (Phoenix Paperback P53). 265 pp., $2.25.

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TL;DR: Bash as mentioned in this paper criticizes American Ideological Intrusions upon sociological theory and criticizes the role of race and ethnicity in such intrusions, and presents a critique of American ideological intrusions upon social theory.
Abstract: Harry H. Bash, Sociology, Race and Ethnicity: A Critique of American Ideological Intrusions Upon Sociological Theory. New York, London, Paris: Gordon and Breach. 264 pp. $19.95.

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TL;DR: Redman et al. as mentioned in this paper presented a social archeology approach to beyond subsistence and dating, which is called beyond subsumption and dating (BDS) beyond subsistence and dating.
Abstract: Charles L. Redman, Mary Jane Berman, Edward V. Curtin, William T. Langhorne, Jr., Nina M. Versaggi, and Jeffery C. Wanser, eds. Social Archeology: Beyond Subsistence and Dating. New York: Academic Press, 1978. xiv + 471 pp. $25.00.

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TL;DR: Parry and Inden as discussed by the authors presented a history of Caste and Clan in Middle-Period Bengal, including a glossary, notes, bibliography, and index, with a discussion of kinship and kinship in Kangra.
Abstract: Jonathan P. Parry. Caste and Kinship in Kangra. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979. xvi + 353 pp. Maps, tables, figures, photographs, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.00. Ronald B. Inden. Marriage and Rank in Bengali Culture: A History of Caste and Clan in Middle‐Period Bengal. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. x + 161 pp. Bibliography and index. $14.00.