CSAC Monographs 7

Questions in Sociology and Social Anthropology a collection of papers by

Derek H. Allcorn

Edited by David Goss

Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing
The University of Kent at Canterbury

1994
First published 1994 by CSAC Monographs
Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing
Eliot College, University of Kent at Canterbury CT2 7NS
© 1994 The Estate of Derek H. Allcorn
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Typescript prepared by B. Delaney and M. Fischer.
ISBN 0 904938 47 6

Acknowledgements.

Since 1986, a lot of people have helped us to remember Derek. For this volume, we thank first Joyce Allcom for permitting and encouraging us to edit his papers. We thank, secondly, David Goss, who studied with Derek, for taking on the task of going through the masses of Derek's papers, and making, with us, hard decisions about what to include, and how to edit it. We thank the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Univer- sity of Kent at Canterbury for a grant to support the costs of preparation and printing. We thank Dr. Michael Fischer and the Centre for Anthro- pology and Computing for setting, printing and publishing. We would also like to thank those who have spoken at, helped to arrange, and attended the annual workshops which we have organised in memory of Derek; and very warmly all who contributed to the Allcorn Box Memorial Fund, which we set up in his memory and that of Steven Box. This Fund currently provides help for sociology and anthropology graduate students in need. It is Joyce Allcorn's wish that any revenues from the sale of this book will be added to it.
Paul Stirling
Richard Scase