The Character of kinship / edited by Jack Goody
Contributor(s): Goody, Jack.
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BookPublisher: Cambridge : University Press , 1973Description: xii, 251p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0521202906.Subject(s): Meyer Fortes | Kinship | Families | MarriageDDC classification: 301 | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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BIDS Library and Documentation Center | Non-fiction | 301 GOO-2 (Browse shelf) | C-01 | Available | 044517 |
Published on the occasion of the retirement of Meyer Fortes.
Bibliography: p. 236-248.
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)
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