Political systems of Highland Burma : a study of Kachin social structure /E R Leach

By: E R LeachContributor(s): E R LeachMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002Series: Beacon paperbacks, no. 192Publication details: Boston : Beacon Press , 1965Description: xx, 324 pages : maps ; 23 cmISBN: 9781845202774Subject(s): Social SciencesGenre/Form: EthnologyDDC classification: 320.9591 Summary: For the first time a modern type of sociological analysis has been applied to the rich ethnographic material of northern Southeast Asia in this book. While making full use of the techniques which social anthropologists had developed during the previous decade, mainly on the basis of African materials, this book marked a departure from then current orthodoxies and has come to be recognized as constituting an outstanding development in the field of anthropological theory
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For the first time a modern type of sociological analysis has been applied to the rich ethnographic material of northern Southeast Asia in this book. While making full use of the techniques which social anthropologists had developed during the previous decade, mainly on the basis of African materials, this book marked a departure from then current orthodoxies and has come to be recognized as constituting an outstanding development in the field of anthropological theory

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