Choice and change : essays in honour of Lucy Mair
1974, 1st edition. London : Athlone Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #391218
Series: Monographs on social anthropology ; no. 50. Physical description: vi, 259 pages, plate : portrait ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-259). Contents: Lucy Mair / J. Davis -- On some witches and a predicant / Pierre Alexandre -- Conflict and change : establishment and opposition in Malta / Jeremy Boissevain -- How they hid the red flag in Pisticci in 1923, and how it was betrayed / J. Davis -- The politics of an old state : a view from the Chinese lineage / Maurice Freedman -- The free women of Kinshasa : prostitution in a city in Zaire / Jean S. La Fontaine -- The progress of Greek nationalism in Cyprus, 1878-1970 / Peter Loizos -- Aspects of underdevelopment and development in northeast Morocco / David Seddon -- Land tenure and "room for manoeuvre" / Anne Sharman -- Cause, knowledge and change : Turkish village revisited / Paul Stirling -- Status and the innovator / Sandra Wallman. Subject: Mair, Lucy 1901-1986; Ethnology; Social change.
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