From Triads to Pentads

Modelling Myth and Kinship in the Work of N.J. Allen

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252 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-894-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2025
Reihe/Serie	Methodology & History in Anthropology
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-894-6 / 1805398946
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-894-3 / 9781805398943
Zustand	Neuware