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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.

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Author:   Robert Parkin
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805398943

ISBN 10:   1805398946
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   01 March 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Structuralism Chapter 1. On the Notion of Structure Chapter 2. Hierarchical Opposition and Some Other Types of Relation Part II: Georges Dumézil and Indo-European Comparativism Chapter 3. Debating Dumézil Chapter 4. Quadripartion of Society in Early Tibetan Sources Chapter 5. The Ideology of the Indo-Europeans: Dumézil’s Theory and the Idea of a Fourth Function Chapter 6. The Category of Substance: A Maussian Theme Revisited Chapter 7. Why did Odysseus Become a Horse? Part III: The Tetradic Theory of Kinship Chapter 8. A Dance of Relatives Chapter 9. Tetradic Theory: An Approach to Kinship Chapter 10. Assimilation of Alternate Generations Chapter 11. Tetradic Theory and Omaha Systems Chapter 12. The Division of Labour and the Notion of Primitive Society: A Maussian Perspective Conclusion Index

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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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