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Several Social Relations courses taught by David Maybury-Lewis, assistant professor of Social Anthropology, were misprinted in this year's catalogue, the department said yesterday. The correct startings follow:
"Soc Rel 113. Social Structure of Brazil. Half course (spring term). T, T, (S) at 11. Discusses various approaches to the study of Brazilian society and the type of understanding which may (or may not) be gained from each. Particular attention will be paid to the idea of "two nations" and its sociological implications, to race relations, to the function of the bureaucracy, and to the working of the political system.
"Soc Rel 264a. Seminar: Structural anthropology. Half course (fall term). M, 2-4. The seminar will discuss the theory and practice of structural anthropology and deal with the problems of comparing one society with another and of establishing generalizations for the societies studied.
"Soc Rel 264b. Seminar: Structural anthropology. Half course (spring term). M, 2-4. The seminar will apply methods of structural anthropology in the examination of data collected in the field by members of the Harvard-Central Brazil Research Project. Special attention will be paid to the structural analysis of myth, ritual, and of political and relationship systems."
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