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Kinship and the social order : the legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan / Meyer Fortes ; with a new introduction by Lionel Tiger.

Title
Kinship and the social order : the legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan / Meyer Fortes ; with a new introduction by Lionel Tiger.
Author
Fortes, Meyer
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J. : Aldine Transaction, c2006.

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Description
xv, 347 p.; 23 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • Originally published: Chicago : Aldine Pub. Co., 1969.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-333) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Part I: Retrospect. Morgan: The founding father -- The line of succession: from Morgan to Radcliffe-Brown -- Morgan and the analytical approach -- Radcliffe-Brown and the development of structural analysis -- Toward the jural dimension. Part II: Paradigmatic ethnographical specimens. A methodological excursus -- The kinship polity -- Cognatic systems and the politico-jural domain -- The Ashanti: State and citizenship -- The lineage in Ashanti -- Ashanti patrilateral kinship and its values. Part III: Some issues in structural theory. Kinship and the axiom of amity -- Filiation reconsidered -- Descent and the corporate group.
ISBN
  • 0202308022 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780202308029
LCCN
^^2005052878
OCLC
  • 61261401
  • SCSB-12733052
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Harvard Library