The Character of Kinship.

Abstract

Part I. Kinship and Descent: 1. Descent and marriage reconsidered Fredrik Barth 2. Kinship, descent and locality: some New Guinea examples Andrew Strathern 3. Descent in New Guinea: an Africanist view Jean La Fontaine 4. Complementary filiation and bilateral kinship Edmund Leach Part II. The Nature of Kinship: 5. Genetrix: genitor: nature: culture? J. A. Barnes 6. The long term and the short term: the economic and political significance of the morality of kinship Maurice Bloch 7. The kith and the kin Julian Pitt-Rivers Part III. The Nature of the Family: 8. Kinship, attachment behaviour and the primary bond Derek Freeman 9. The matrifocal family Raymond T. Smith 10. Furies, witches and mothers Grace Harris Part IV. Marriage and Affinal Roles: 11. Some aspects of levirate R. G. Abrahams 12. Polygyny, economy and the role of women Jack Goody 13. From varna to caste through mixed unions S. J. Tambiah Notes Bibliography of the writings of Meyer Fortes J. A . Barnes References Index.