In one of this man's papers, he looked at a specific custom in one society in which a boy has a special relationship with his maternal uncle that is distinct from any other relationship with a paternal figure.
In one of this man's papers, he looked at a specific custom in one society in which a boy has a special relationship with his maternal uncle that is distinct from any other relationship with a paternal figure. In addition to that paper, "The Mother's Brother in South Africa," he gave in-laws as an example of a relationship whose participants are expected to engage in the titular action in "On (*) Joking Relationships." This posited two different explanations for totemism, one in an eponymous essay published in Structure and Function in Primitive Society and another in "The Comparative Method in Social Anthropology." His belief that social institutions should be studied as scientific objects differed from that of Bronislaw Malinowski, and this man also famously conducted studies in Western Australia and in an island group in the Indian Ocean. FTP, identify this British anthropologist whose landmark studies include "Social Organization of Australian Tribes" and "The Andaman Islanders," the developer of structural functionalism.
In one of this man's papers, he looked at a specific custom in one society in which a boy has a special relationship with his maternal uncle that is distinct from any other relationship with a paternal figure.
Alfred {Radcliffe-Brown}