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Essays on cultural transmission.(Book review)
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BLOCH, MAURICE. Essays on cultural transmission. xi, 174 pp., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berg Publishers, 2005. [pounds sterling]55.00 (cloth), [pounds sterling]16.99 (paper)
This collection 'consists of a mixture of unpublished work and articles which have already been published' (p. ix). At first sight, then, the reader might envisage an author emptying his drawers of drafts onto a productivity accountant's desk. Yet the resulting nine essays range from a reprint of some 2000 early words on Malagasy carvings to a recent Inaugural Lecture on anthropology's 'need for "human ...
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