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Out of time : history and evolution in anthropological discourse / Nicholas Thomas.

Title: Out of time : history and evolution in anthropological discourse / Nicholas Thomas.
Author: Thomas, Nicholas, 1928-
Publication: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, c1996.

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155 : ill.; 23 cm.

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Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

1. History and anthropological discourse -- 2. Radcliffe-Brown, Geertz and the foundations of modern anthropology -- 3. The background to Polynesian anthropology -- 4. An evolutionary argument and its sources -- 5. Untying evidence, rethinking transformations -- 6. Travellers philosophical and unphilosophical -- 7. Evolution of another sort: regional system theory and the Pacific -- 8. Histories structured and unstructured -- 9. The look of events.

ISBN

0472083775 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^96013807^

OCLC

34410067

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Harvard Library