General Meeting,March 9th, 1849

Abstract

Salisbury Cathedral's cloister has received less scholarly attention than it merits. An important and outstanding issue is that of the structure's date. This has never been securely established, and there is no scholarly consensus on the matter. With reference to documentary and archaeological evidence, this article establishes unequivocally a documented start-date of after 15 June 1263 for the second stage of the project. In so doing it confirms the opinion of Pamela Blum, and corrects mistakes in her article of 1991 on the sequence of the 13th-century building campaigns at Salisbury.     

Paradigms and other speculative instruments of social anthropology

T. O. Beidelman, ed. The Translation of Culture: Essays to E. E. Evans‐Pritchard. London: Tavistock Publications (New York: Barnes & Noble Books), 1974. ix + 440 pp. Figures, references, and index. $20 (cloth), $8.75 (paper).

Victor Turner. Dramas, Fields and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1974. 309 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $16.50.     

The central Andes: Past perspectives and present views

Masuda, Shozo, ed. Contribuciones a los Estudios de los Andes Centrales. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1984. vi + 405 pp. including bibliography. [no price] paper.

Stein, William W., ed. Peruvian Contexts of Change. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1985. x + 400 pp. $29.95 cloth.     

Method and Confusion in the Study of the Household: A Review

Abstract

When analyzing Woodrow Wilson's narrow victory in the presidential election of 1916, students of the Electoral College have focused on the closeness of the popular vote in California. None of them have noticed that Wilson's victory in the Electoral College depended on non-enforcement of the Penalty Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Using Morgan Kousser's analysis of voter disenfranchisement across the South between 1880 and 1910, this article demonstrates that Charles Evans Hughes would have won the electoral vote if the Penalty Clause had been enforced when the House was reapportioned following the 1910 census.