Culture and Communication: The Logic by Which Symbols Are Connected An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Social Anthropology
by Leach, Edmund Ronald
ISBN: 052121131X
ISBN-13: 9780521211314
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Published date: 1976
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