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Kinship and Social Organisation (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1914, W.H.R. Rivers' hugely influential€study€was the first to effectively€demonstrate the close connection between€methods of denoting relationship or kinship and forms of social organisation, €including those based on different forms of the institution of marriage.€He also shows€that the terminology of relationship has been rigorously determined by social conditions and that, therefore, systems of relationship furnish us with a most valuable instrument in studying the history of social institutions. This€series of lectures was origi.

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