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,
“... Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (1968) will tell them all they need to know. However, Judith Modell’s book is the first ‘full-scale’ biography. It started out as a PhD dissertation completed in 1978 and retains the hallmarks of its origin. The scholarly apparatus is massively comprehensive, but Ruth Benedict (née Fulton) does not show ... ”
