AFRICAN SYSTEMS OF KINSHIP AND MARRIAGE -- A. Radcliffe- Brown & Daryll Forde

African Systems of Kinship and Marriage edited by A R Radcliffe-Brown & Daryll Forde

Softcover, Oxford University Press,1965.

Condition: Good reading copy. Wrappers and edges are shelf worn. Some pencil underlining. Binding sound. 

399 pages. Size: 21.7cm x 14cm.

African Systems of Kinship and Marriage is a classic. Seldom out of print since its first publication in 1950, it is still, thirty-six years later, the most wide-ranging and respected survey of these aspects of African social life. In his introduction Radcliffe-Brown provides a masterly analysis of the main features of African kinship systems and the theoretical problems arising from the study of them. The contributions range from examination of kinship systems among the Swazi, the Tswana, the Zulu, the Nuer, the Ashanti to double descent among the Yako and dual descent in the Nuba groups of the Sudan. The names of the contributors are those of anthropologists still viewed today as giants in their field: Evans-Pritchard, Meyer Fortes, Max Gluckman, Hilda Kuper, Nadel, A.I. Richards, Schapera and Monica Wilson.

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