Structure and Process: the Purum Case

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American AnthropologistVolume 67, Issue 1 p. 83-91 Free Access Structure and Process: the Purum Case Charles Ackerman, Charles Ackerman Cornell UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Charles Ackerman, Charles Ackerman Cornell UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: February 1965 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1965.67.1.02a00070Citations: 2AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL REFERENCES CITED Ackerman, Charles 1964 Structure and statistics: the Purum case. American Anthropologist 66: 53– 65. Cowgill, George L. 1964 Statistics and sense: more on the Purum case. American Anthropologist 66: 1358– 1365. Das, Tarakchandra 1945 The Purums. Calcutta, University of Calcutta. Geoghegan, William H. and Paul Kay 1964 More structure and statistics: a critique of C. Ackerman's analysis of the Purum. American Anthropologist 66: 1351– 1358. Homans, George and David Schneider 1955 Marriage, authority and final causes. Glencoe, The Free Press. Kendall, Maurice G. 1955 Rank correlation methods. London, Charles Griffen & Co., Ltd. Leach, Edmund 1954 Political systems of highland Burma. London, G. Bell & Sons, Ltd. Leach, Edmund 1962 Rethinking anthropology. (London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology, No. 22), London. Lévi-Strauss, Claude 1963 Structural anthropology. New York, Basic Books, Inc. Livingstone, Frank B. 1959 A further analysis of Purum social structure. American Anthropologist 61: 1084– 1087. Müller, Ernst W. 1964 Structure and statistics: some remarks on the Purum case. American Anthropologist 66: 1371– 1377. Needham, Rodney 1958 A structural analysis of Purum society. American Anthropologist 60: 75– 101. Needham, Rodney 1960 Structure and change in asymmetric alliance: comments on Livingstone's further analysis of Purum society. American Anthropologist 62: 499– 503. Needham, Rodney 1962 Genealogy and category in Wikmunkan society. Ethnology 1: 223– 264. Needham, Rodney 1963 Symmetry and asymmetry in prescriptive alliance: further comments on an alleged fallacy. Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde 119: 267– 283. Needham, Rodney 1964 Explanatory notes on prescriptive alliance and the Purum. American Anthropologist 66: 1377– 1386. Parsons, Talcott 1964 Evolutionary universals in society. American Sociological Review 29: 339– 357. White, Harrison 1963 An anatomy of kinship: mathematical models for structures of cumulated roles. Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall, Inc. Citing Literature Volume67, Issue1February 1965Pages 83-91 ReferencesRelatedInformation