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What is The Character of Kinship about?

"A collection of specially commissioned essays dealing with general aspects of kinship, family and marriage from an anthropological point of view, that is, considering the total range of human societies. In his editorial introduction, Jack Goody explains that his aim has been to provide 'essays dealing with general themes rather than ethnographic conundrums or descriptive minutiae' in the hope of achieving 're-consideration of some central problem areas including those examined by an earlier generation of anthropologists and still raised by scholars outside the discipline itself'. Individual essays cover problems such as the nature of kinship and the family; why monogamy?; intermarriage and the creation of castes"--From publisher description.

Author

Jack Goody; Meyer Fortes

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

1973

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521290029

Subjects

Sociology, Anthropology, Social_sciences