Rethinking Marriage and KinshipRodney Needham This volume is concerned with two of the fundamental topics of social anthropology, kinship and marriage, approached from a variety of viewpoints by an international group of contributors of diverse experience and background. |
Contents
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| xiii | |
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| xxxiv | |
Wikmunkan | xl |
Affect | lii |
Prescriptive alliance | lix |
Incest | 24 |
Conclusions | 29 |
MARTIN SOUTHWOLD Meanings of Kinship | 35 |
The Ganda terminology | 36 |
A Reassessment | 57 |
EDMUND LEACH | 75 |
5 | 84 |
ANTHONY FORGE | 133 |
The Purum case | lxvi |
Competence and authority | lxxxi |
Acknowledgements | cviii |
RODNEY NEEDHAM Remarks on the Analysis of Kinship and Marriage | 1 |
Kinship | 3 |
Marriage | 5 |
Descent | 8 |
Terminologies | 13 |
DAVID MCKNIGHT | 145 |
Some Kaguru Notions about Incest and Other | 181 |
WILLIAM WILDER | 203 |
JAMES J | 219 |
Notes on Contributors | 253 |
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