Navajo kinship and marriage /

Navajo kinship and marriage /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Witherspoon, Gary.
Edition:	Midway reprint ed.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1986, c1975.
Description:	xii, 137 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Midway reprint Midway reprints.
Subject:	Navajo Indians -- Social life and customs. Navajo Indians -- Marriage customs and rites. Navajo Indians -- Kinship. Indians of North America -- Marriage customs and rites -- Southwest, New. Indians of North America -- Kinship -- Southwest, New. Kinship -- Southwest, New. Indians of North America -- Kinship. Indians of North America -- Marriage customs and rites. Navajo Indians -- Kinship. Navajo Indians -- Marriage customs and rites. Southwest, New.
Format:	Print Book
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library's UCPress copies are variant editions with different covers.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7888094

Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:	0226904172 (pbk.) 9780226904177 (pbk.)
Notes:	Previously published in 1975. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 131-134.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Preface
1. Kinship as a Cultural System
2. Mother and Child and the Nature of Kinship
3. Marriage and the Nature of Affinity
4. Father and Child
5. The Descent System
6. The Concepts of Sex, Generation, Sibling Order, and Distance
7. Kinship and Affinal Solidarity as Symbolized in the Enemyway
8. Social Organization in the Rough Rock-Black Mountain Area
9. Residence in the Subsistence Residential Unit
10. Subsistence in the Subsistence Residential Unit
11. Unity in the Subsistence Residential Unit
12. The Navajo Outfit as a Set of Related Subsistence Residential Units
13. The Web of Affinity
14. The Social Universe of the Navajo
Notes
Bibliography
Index