Comparative studies in kinship / Jack Goody
1969, 1st edition. Stanford, Calif : Stanford University Press. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #395211
Physical description xvii, 261 p : illus., geneal. table, map ; 23 cm. Contents; Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Dedication ; Table of Contents ; Preface; CHAPTER ONE Comparative Sociology and theDecolonization of the Social Sciences; CHAPTER TWO A Comparative Approach to Incest and Adultery1; CHAPTER THREE The Mother's Brother and the Sister's Sonin West Africa; CHAPTER FOUR The Classification of Donble Descent Systems; CHAPTER FIVE Inheritance, Social Change and the BoundaryProblem; CHAPTER SIX Marriage Policy and Incorporation inNorthern Ghana; CHAPTER SEVEN The Circulation of Women and Chldren inNorthern Ghana
CHAPTER EIGHT Cross-cousin Marriage in Northern GhanaCHAPTER NINE Indo-European Kinship; CHAPTER TEN On Nannas and Nannies; Subject Index. Marriage. Parenté. Kinship and family Traditional societies Social anthropology. Sociology of the Family.
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