Everything is relatives

Everything is relatives [videorecording] / a Films for the Humanities and Sciences presentation ; written and presented by Bruce Dakowski ; executive producer, Karl Sabbagh ; produced and directed by Andre Singer.

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Reviews the life and work of social anthropologist William Rivers. Describes his work among the people of the Torres Straits and the Todas of southern India and how he was led to stress the importance of kinship ties into understanding culture. His efforts to provide anthropology with a sound scient...

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Corporate Authors: Central Independent Television, Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Other Authors: Dakowski, Bruce (Screenwriter), Sabbagh, Karl (Producer), Singer, André, 1945- (Producer, Director), Thomson, Mike (director of photography.), Brook, Sue (Film editor), Emney, Mark (Composer), Barrie, Chris, 1960- (Performer)
Other title:Title on disc label: William Rivers : Everything is relatives.
Opening frame: Pioneers of social anthropology. [William Rivers]
Strangers abroad (Television program)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, ©2010.
Edition:Fullscreen.
Subjects:
Rivers, W. H. R. > (William Halse Rivers), > 1864-1922.
Torres Strait Islanders > Social life and customs.
Melanesians > Social life and customs.
Toda (Indic people) > Social life and customs.
Anthropologists > Great Britain > Biography.
Anthropology.
Kinship.
Documentary television programs.
Ethnographic television programs.
Biographical television programs.
Educational television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.

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