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According to Wikipedia, Nicholas Justin Allen was an English physician and social anthropologist who specialized in Indo-European studies. Allen was Viceregent at Wolfson College, Oxford and Anthropology Editor of the Journal of Indo-European Studies.

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The Dynamics of Polyandry: Kinship, Domesticity and Population on the Tibetan Border. (1989) (77)
Early Austronesian Social Organization: The Evidence of Language [and Comments and Reply] (1980) (69)
Individualism and Equality [and Comments and Replies] (1986) (67)
[Marcel Mauss: A Centenary Tribute] (2000) (48)
On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1999) (46)
The Manual of Ethnography (2022) (46)
The evolution of kinship terminologies (1989) (41)
Early human kinship: From sex to social reproduction (2008) (38)
Sketch of Thulung Grammar, with Three Texts and a Glossary (1981) (25)
Categories and Classifications: Maussian Reflections on the Social (2000) (24)
The common origin approach to comparing Indian and Greek philosophy (2018) (21)
Tetradic Theory and the Origin of Human Kinship Systems (2009) (20)
Early Human Kinship (2008) (18)
Byansi Kinship Terminology: A Study in Symmetry (1975) (18)
Early Irish and Welsh kinship (1997) (18)
Sherpa Kinship Terminology in Diachronic Perspective (1976) (17)
Assimilation of alternate generations (1989) (12)
The Indo-European prehistory of yoga (1998) (10)
Effervescence, differentiation and representation in The Elementary Forms (2012) (10)
Sewala Puja Bintila Puja: Notes on Thulung Ritual Language (1978) (10)
thomas mcevilley: The missing dimension (2005) (8)
Some gods of Pre-Islamic Nuristan (1991) (8)
Bhīṣma and hesiod’s succession myth (2004) (7)
Durkheim on the causes and functions of the categories (2012) (7)
Effervescence and the origins of human society (2012) (6)
Miyapma: Traditional Narratives of the Thulung Rai (2012) (5)
Arjuna and the Second Function: A Dumézilian Crux (1999) (5)
Fourfold Classifications of Society in the Himalayas (1978) (5)
Spencer and Gillen in Durkheim: the theoretical construction of ethnography (2012) (5)
Imra, pentads and catastrophes (2000) (4)
The concept of belief in The Elementary Forms (2012) (4)
The articulation of time: some Indo-European comparisons (2001) (4)
Dyaus and Bhïṣma, Zeus and Sarpedon [Towards a history of the Indo-european and sky god] (2004) (4)
On the notion of structure (1990) (4)
Śiva and Indo-European Ideology: One Line of Thought (2007) (3)
Primitive Classification: the argument and its validity (2012) (3)
Studies in the myths and oral traditions of the Thulung Rai of East Nepal (1976) (3)
Homer’s Simile, Vyasa’s Story (1996) (3)
Cúchulainn's women and some Indo-European comparisons (2000) (3)
Varnas, colours, and functions (1998) (3)
HEROES AND PENTADS: OR HOW INDO-EUROPEAN IS GREEK EPIC?† (2014) (2)
Using Hubert and Mauss to think about Sacrifice (2013) (2)
Asceticism in some Indo-European traditions (2005) (2)
THE PĀṆḌAVAS’ FIVE JOURNEYS AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE MAHĀBHĀRATA (2007) (2)
The Indo‐European Background to Greek Mythology (2011) (2)
Memory and the sacred: the cult of anniversaries and commemorative rituals in the light of The Elementary Forms (2012) (2)
A Myth About Sacrifice (2015) (1)
The Sanskrit epics . By John Brockington, pp. x, 296. Leiden, Brill, 1998. (1999) (1)
An Untouchable community in South India: structure and consensus . By Michael Moffatt. pp. xliii, 323. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1979. (1980) (1)
The division of labour and the notion of primitive society: a Maussian approach (2007) (1)
Vedic Sacrifice and the Pentadic Theory of Indo-European Ideology (2015) (1)
Argos and Hanuman: Odysseus' dog in the light of the Mahâbhârata (2000) (1)
Oxford University papers on India (1986) (1)
Mauss, India, and perspectives from world history (2014) (1)
The Stockmen and the Disciples (2002) (1)
The Shield of Achilles and Indo-European Tradition (2007) (1)
Caste and kinship in Kangra. By Jonathan P. Parry. (International Library of Anthropology.) pp. xv, 353; 4 pl. London, Routledge, 1979. 12.50. (1980) (0)
The legacy and appearance of hospital buildings (1996) (0)
Kauravas and suitors (2019) (0)
Yudhiṣṭhira and Agamemnon (2019) (0)
A starting point (2019) (0)
Five relationships (2019) (0)
Bhīṣma and Sarpedon (2019) (0)
Hesiod’s Succession Myth (2019) (0)
Dangerous Wives and Sacred Sisters: Social and Symbolic Roles of High-Caste Women in Nepal . By Lynn Bennett, pp. xiii, 353. New York, Columbia University Press, 1983. US $39.00. (1984) (0)
Durgā and Athena (2019) (0)
The Assamese: religion, caste and sect in an Indian village . By Audrey Cantlie. (School of Oriental and African Studies, London Studies on South Asia, No. 3.) pp. xiii, 322, 14 maps. London and Dublin, Curzon Press, 1984. £10.50. (1985) (0)
South Asia (1999) (0)
Chronicle and Epic, or the Introductions to the Mahāvaṃsa and the Mahābhārata: Selected Comparisons (2019) (0)
Homer’s simile (2019) (0)
Book Reviews (1978) (0)
Scripture and epic: a comparativist looks at the biography of the Buddha (2000) (0)
Draupadī and Penelope (2019) (0)
Le mytho-cycle héroïque dans l'aire Indo-européenne: Correspondances et Transformations Helléno-aryennes. By Christophe Vielle. (Publications de L'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 46). pp. 253. Louvain-la-Neuve: Institut Orientaliste, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1996. FB 1995. (1998) (0)
The Great Depression and the New Deal (1998) (0)
Book Reviews : Divine Passions: The Social Construction ofEmotion in India edited by Owen M. Lynch. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Pp. x + 312. $13.95 (1991) (0)
Five elements (2019) (0)
Crocodiles and nymphs (2019) (0)
The King-Priest Quarrel in the Adiparvan and the Iliad (2016) (0)
Reviews : T. Headland et al., Emics and Etics: the insider/outsider debate. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1990. £13.25, 226 pp (1992) (0)
Hanging over abyss (2019) (0)
Contemporary German Social Anthropology (1988) (0)
ARJUNA‐ODYSSEUS: SHARED HERITAGE IN INDIAN AND GREEK EPIC. By N. J.Allen. London and New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 350 + xiv; Hardback, $150; Paper, $65.95; Ebook, $59.36. (2019) (0)
Nepal Mandala: A cultural study of the Kathmandu Valley . By Mary Shepherd Slusser. 2 vols.: pp. xix, 491, front.; pp. xix, 9 maps, 29 figs., 600 photos. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, [1982]. $162.50, £105.90. (1983) (0)
Reseña. Joseph Falaky Nagy : Writing Down the Myths. (2014) (0)
Gods descend to battlefield (2019) (0)
The Abbey Habit (2006) (0)
Marriage by Capture (2000) (0)
Donald A. Messerschmidt: The Gurungs of Nepal: conflict and change in a village society, [xiv], 151 pp. Warminster: Aris and Phillips Ltd., [1976[. £6. (1977) (0)
The cult of images: reading chapter VII, book II, of The Elementary Forms (2012) (0)
Social/Cultural Anthropology: High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. Sherry B. Ortner. (1992) (0)
South Asia (1999) (0)
Religious Doctrines in the Mahābhārata. By Nicholas Sutton. pp. xxii, 477. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 2000. (2001) (0)
review of S. Brodbeck, The Mahabharata patriline (2012) (0)
Nepal . Compiled by John Whelpton. with assistance of Lucette Boulnots, David Gellner, Michael Hutt, Abhi Subedi and Carol Tingey. (World Bibliographical Series, Vol. 38.) pp. xxv, 294, map. Oxford etc., Clio Press, 1991. £44.95. (1992) (0)
Rings and rotations (2019) (0)
Durkheim and a priori truth: conformity as a philosophical problem (2012) (0)
Appendices to Chapter 12 (2008) (0)
Hero and horse (2019) (0)
The Birhors: a little-known jungle tribe of chota Nagpur . By S. C. Roy. pp. x, 298, 9 pl Ranchi, Man in India Office, 1978. Rs 85. (1980) (0)
AŚvatthāman and the Wooden Horse (2019) (0)
The Heimdall-Dyu Comparison Revisited (2007) (0)
Droṇa and Chryses (2019) (0)
Cyavana and Prometheus (2019) (0)
South Asia (1993) (0)
Early Rome and Indo-European Comparison: Dominique Briquel on Two Crises (2009) (0)
Monkey and dog (2019) (0)
Heroes and supercategories (2019) (0)

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