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Sign-Posts in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Explorations in Cultural Anthropology

Edited by Ward H. Goodenough. (Essays in Honor of George Peter Murdock.) Pp. xiii + 653. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company; Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Ltd., 1964.) 100s.; 12.50 dollars.

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Aims, Methods and Achievements in Social Anthropology. By John Beattie. Pp. xii + 283. (London: Cohen and West, Ltd., 1964.) 32s.

Social Anthropology

By Prof. Paul Bohannan. Pp. viii + 421. (New York and London: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1963.) 6 dollars.

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FIRTH, R. Sign-Posts in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Nature 205, 732–733 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205732b0

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