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Neighbor and kin : life in a Tennessee ridge community /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Matthews, Elmora Messer (Author)
Other Authors: Mogey, John M. (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Nashville] : Vanderbilt University Press, 1965 [i.e. 1966]
[Nashville] : 1965 [i.e. 1966]
Subjects:
Social conditions
Tennessee > Social conditions > Case studies.
Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Early family structure
  • Marriage, residence, and inheritance
  • Names and titles
  • The strong collateral bond
  • Territorial references
  • Work norms and practices
  • The deme's values
  • Structural strain
  • Endogamy, consolidation, and the double bond
  • Some particularistic-ascriptive patterns
  • Social system control and the egalitarian ideal
  • An explanation of strain.