Anthropologies
Edmund Leach, 2 August 1984
Nomads and the Outside World
by A.M. Khazanov, translated by Julia Crookenden.
Cambridge, 369 pp., £37.50, February 1984,0 521 23813 7 Show More
by A.M. Khazanov, translated by Julia Crookenden.
Cambridge, 369 pp., £37.50, February 1984,
The House of Si Abd Allah: The Oral History of a Moroccan Family
edited by Henry Munson.
Yale, 320 pp., £17.95, April 1984,0 300 03084 3 Show More
edited by Henry Munson.
Yale, 320 pp., £17.95, April 1984,
Ruth Benedict: Patterns of a Life
by Judith Modell.
Chatto, 255 pp., £15, February 1984,0 7011 2771 6 Show More
by Judith Modell.
Chatto, 255 pp., £15, February 1984,
“... Khazanov’s global comparative study of pastoral nomadism is unique. The level of erudition may be indicated by the bare statistic that the bibliography runs to 48 closely printed pages of which 23 refer exclusively to works in Russian. For those who are not specialists in the field at this level of intensity, and perhaps even for those who are, the 16 pages of Ernest Gellner’s ‘Foreword’ provide essential reading ... ”
