Review of "Kinship in Southeastern Asia (stedt monograph 6)"
In the early 1950s, as an anthropology student at Harvard with a growing interest in both kinship and Southeast Asia, I heard about a dissertation with the title “Kinship in Southeastern Asia” written by an earlier Harvard student named Paul Benedict. The topic seemed to be mine, so I sought o...
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| Language: | English |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177703 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | In the early 1950s, as an anthropology student at Harvard with a growing interest
in both kinship and Southeast Asia, I heard about a dissertation with the title
“Kinship in Southeastern Asia” written by an earlier Harvard student named Paul
Benedict. The topic seemed to be mine, so I sought out the chamber in Harvard‟s
Widener Library where the sacred Harvard dissertations were kept under lock and
key, accessible only by careful application to the guardians. I spent the better part
of an afternoon browsing around Benedict‟s formidable opus. It was the first
unpublished dissertation that I had ever tried to read but, sadly, with the passing
of the years, my memory of its contents grew steadily more dim until, at last, I
could remember nothing but my conclusion as I left the room where the book was
shelved: “If he could get a PhD for that, then I shouldn‟t have too much trouble
getting one myself.” |
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