This acknowledged masterpiece has been abridged to make it more accessible to students. In her introduction, Eva Gillies presents the case for the relevance of the book to modern anthropologists.
The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Originally published in 1948, this book presents the content of the Frazer Lecture in Social Anthropology for that year,... Læs mere
Social Anthropology explains and illustrates the methods of modern anthropology, tracing its development from pre-nineteenth-century philosophical speculations and the empirical work of explorers, missionaries and colonial servants.