The Character of kinship.
By: Edited by Jack Goody.
Contributors: Goody, Jack, ed.; Fortes, Meyer.
Publisher: University Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Cambridge [Eng.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Fortes, Meyer; Kinship; Family; Marriage
Description: "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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 236-248.
Published on the occasion of the retirement of Meyer Fortes.
Table of contents: title: Barth, F. Descent and marriage reconsidered.; title: Strathern, A. Kinship, descent and locality: some New Guinea examples.; title: La Fontaine, J. Descent in New Guinea: an Africanist view.; title: Leach, E. Complementary filiation and bilateral kinship.; title: Barnes, J. A. Genetrix: genitor:: nature: culture?; title: Bloch, M. The long term and the short term: the economic and political significance of the morality of kinship.; title: Pitt-Rivers, J. The kith and the kin.; title: Freeman, D. Kinship, attachment behaviour and the primary bond.; title: Smith, R. T. The matrifocal family.; title: Harris, G. Furies, witches and mothers.; title: Abrahams, R. G. Some aspects of levirate.; title: Goody, J. Polygyny, economy and the role of women.; title: Tambiah, S. J. From varna to caste through mixed unions.; title: Barnes, J. A. Bibliography of the writings of Meyer Fortes (p. 231-235)