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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- AldineTransaction Introduction, Lionel Tiger -- Foreword, Alfred Harris -- Preface -- Part I Retrospect -- Chapter I Morgan: The Founding Father -- Chapter II The Line of Succession: From Morgan to Radcliffe-Brown -- Chapter III Morgan and the Analytical Approach -- Chapter IV Radcliffe-Brown and the Development of Structural Analysis -- Chapter V Toward the Jural Dimension -- Part Two Paradigmatic Ethnographical Specimens -- Chapter VI A Methodological Excursus -- Chapter VII The Kinship Polity -- Chapter VIII Cognatic Systems and the Politico-Jural Domain -- Chapter IX The Ashanti: State and Citizenship -- Chapter X The Lineage in Ashanti -- Chapter XI Ashanti Patrilateral Kinship and its Values -- Part III Some Issues in Structural Theory -- Chapter XII Kinship and the Axiom of Amity -- Chapter XIII Filiation Reconsidered -- Chapter XIV Descent and the Corporate Group -- Bibliography -- Index

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. The contributors include R. G. Abrahams, J. A. Barnes, Fredrik Barth, Maurice Bloch, Derek Freeman, Jack Goody, Grace Harris, Jean La Fontaine, Edmund Leach, Julian Pitt-Rivers, Raymond T. Smith, Andrew Strathern and S. J. Tambiah