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Also Known As nonurban society • nonurban culture

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Elman Rogers Service
American anthropologist
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychoanalyst
Edward Burnett Tylor
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
British anthropologist
Sir James George Frazer
British anthropologist
Carleton S. Coon
American anthropologist
Paul Radin
American anthropologist
Sir Henry Maine.
Sir Henry Maine
British jurist, historian, and anthropologist
Edward Westermarck
Finnish sociologist
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
French philosopher
Sir Raymond Firth
New Zealand anthropologist