The Character of kinship /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Goody, Jack, Fortes, Meyer
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] : University Press, [1973]
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Table of Contents:
  • Barth, F. Descent and marriage reconsidered
  • Strathern, A. Kinship, descent and locality: some New Guinea examples
  • La Fontaine, J. Descent in New Guinea: an Africanist view
  • Leach, E. Complementary filiation and bilateral kinship
  • Barnes, J. A. Genetrix: genitor:: nature: culture?--Bloch, M. The long term and the short term: the economic and political significance of the morality of kinship
  • Pitt-Rivers, J. The kith and the kin
  • Freeman, D. Kinship, attachment behaviour and the primary bond
  • Smith, R. T. The matrifocal family
  • Harris, G. Furies, witches and mothers
  • Abrahams, R. G. Some aspects of levirate
  • Goody, J. Polygyny, economy and the role of women
  • Tambiah, S. J. From varna to caste through mixed unions
  • Barnes, J. A. Bibliography of the writings of Meyer Fortes (p. 231-235)