Humans organize systems of social ideas through structures of kinship. In Introduction to the Science of Kinship, Murray J. Leaf and Dwight Read describe what those ideas are, how they are used, and what this implies for the science of human social organization.
The path to the kinship apocalypse -- Theory of organizations -- Kinship and biology -- Kinship maps -- Ideas attached to kinship maps -- Domestic group organizations -- The Hopi -- The Purum -- The Dravidian problem transformed -- Kinship, logic, and mathematics.
The Anthropology of Western Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies is a comparative survey of the world's major religious traditions as professional enterprises and, often, as social movements. Documenting the principle ideas behind Western religious traditions from…
The world's?great? religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them and, therefore, to debating what understanding itself is and how best to do it. They also have important public missions of many kinds…
The Anthropology of Western Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies is a comparative survey of the world's major religious traditions as professional enterprises and, often, as social movements. Documenting the principle ideas behind Western religious traditions from…
Empirical starting points -- Scepticism, pragmatism, and Kant -- New tools -- Social idea systems -- Technical information systems -- Organizations -- Groups and institutions -- Adaptation -- Conclusion.
