Contexts in Kinship

Zusammenfassung In her study of domestic organization in Gonja! Esther Goody has concentrated on tracing the interrelationships between political and domestic institutions in a bilateral kinship system. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables; List of illustrations; Preface; Symbols used in the text; Part I. Contexts and Problems: 1. Problems; 2. The historical, political and economic setting; 3. Three divisions of central Gonja and their villages; Part II. Marriage: 4. Courtship and patterns of marriage: open connubium; 5. Establishing a marriage; 6. The conjugal relationship; 7. The termination of marriage; Part III. Kinship: 8. Parents and children; 9. Kinship and sibship; Part IV. Residence: 10. Residence: the synchronic view; 11. The developmental cycle; 12. Conclusions; Appendices; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Esther Goody, Esther N. Goody
• Assisted by: Meyer Fortes (Editor), Edmund Leach (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.03.1973
• EAN: 9780521017206
• ISBN: 978-0-521-01720-6
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Social an
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories