Studies in kinship and marriage. Dedicated to Brenda Z. Seligman on her 80th birthday.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Schapera, Isaac, 1905-2003
Imprint:London : Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland, 1963.
Description:vi, 113 p. illus. 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Occasional paper no. 16
Occasional paper (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland) ; no. 16.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2597195
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword, by E. E. Evans-Pritchard
  • Some Zande texts, by E. E. Evans-Pritchard
  • Bilateral descent groups: an operational viewpoint, by R. Firth
  • Unilineal fact or fiction: an analysis of the composition of kingroups among the Yakö, by D. Forde
  • The "submerged descent line" in Ashanti, by M. Fortes
  • Did the wild Veddas have matrilineal clans? by E. Leach
  • Dinka representations of the relations between the sexes, by G. Lienhardt
  • Kinship and inheritance, by Lord Raglan
  • Agnatic marriage in Tswana royal families.