The PittRivers Omnibus brings together the definitive essays and lectures of the influential social anthropologist Julian A. PittRivers a corpus of work that has until now remained scattered untranslated and unedited. Illuminating the themes and topics that he engaged throughout his lifeincluding hospitality grace the symbolic economy of reciprocity kinship the paradoxes of friendship ritual logics the anthropology of dress and morethis omnibus brings his reflections to new life. Holding Pit