Closed Systems and Open Minds: The Limits of Naivety in Social Anthropology by Gluckman, Max (ed.) - 1964

Aldine, 1964. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Ink writing in text to first 50 pages..

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket. 1964. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 274 pp. .

Chicago: Aldine, 1967. Hardcover. Very good plus condition with text clean & binding tight in a like dust jacket.. 274pp.

London: Oliver & Boyd, 1964. small ink stamp on flyleaf, very good . London: Oliver & Boyd small ink stamp on flyleaf, very good 1964

Chicago: Aldine. x 274pp hardback, brown cloth gilt in wrapper, reprinted, ownership signature, good in a chipped and spine tanned wrapper . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1967.

Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1964,. 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 274pp, slight browning, clean and sound, no inscriptions, brown cloth, Very Good / no dustwrapper .

Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1964 The dust jacket has light spotting and is tanned around the edges on the spine. The edges of the book have light tanning. A previous owners name is written on the first blank page in black pen. 274 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Size E: 8"-9" Tall (203-228mm).

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New. Social anthropology, defined operationally in terms of what social anthropologists have done in the last fifty years, is the study and comparison of tribal societies and of small fields of social life with emphasis on the role of custom. When a social anthropologist's research leads him into any field, which belongs to other disciplines, what line should he adopt? What use may he make of the results that other scholars have already achieved? Must he knowingly make naive assumptions concerning events, which they have regarded as complex? In each of the fascinating essays which in turn form the core of this book - V. W. Turner's on symbols in Ndembu ritual; F.G. Bailey's on disputes which occurred in two Orissa villages; A. L. Epstein's on urban communities in Africa; T. Lupton's and S. Cunnison's on the relationship between behaviour in three Manchester workshops and certain events which happened outside; and W. Watson's on social mobility and social class in a… Read More