Leach, Edmund Ronald.

Rethinking anthropology / by E.R. Leach - London : New York : Athlone Press ; Humanities Press, 1997. - vii, 143 p. : ill ; 23 cm - Monographs on social anthropology ; no. 22 .

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1. Rethinking anthropology -- 2. Jinghpaw kinship terminolgy -- 3. The structural implications of matrilateral cross- cousin marriage -- 4. Polyandry, inheritance and the definition of marriage: with particular reference to Sinhalese customary law -- 5. Aspects of bridewealth and marriage stability among the Kachin and Lakher -- 6. Two essays concerning the symbolic representation of time

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Anthropology
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Marriage customs and rites

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