Robert Harrison Barnes

A Study of the Collective Thought of an Eastern Indonesian People

Kédang

In Two Crows Denies It, R. H. Barnes undertakes an ambitious historical analysis of anthropological scholarship about Omaha kinship systems. His groundbreaking work offers a critique of this established scholarship, including the work of Lävi-Strauss, Dorsey, and Fletcher. In comparing the primary and secondary accounts of Omaha descent, relationship, and naming systems, Barnes reveals the dissonance between the reality of Omaha society and the scholarship that has formed around it. Not only does he put forth a new and more realistic interpretation of Omaha sociology specifically, but in so doing he provides a reinterpretation of an aspect of anthropological theory. This edition includes a new introduction by Raymond J. DeMallie.

A History of Controversy in Omaha Sociology

Two Crows Denies it

R. H.. Barnes

University Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Fellow R H Barnes

This work offers a picture of the culture and economy of of the coastal community of Lamalera. Their traditional ways of life - sea-fishing and the production of dyed textiles - have come under pressure from external economic influences and many people are

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