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African Systems of Kinship and Marriage
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First published in 1950 and this edition in 1987, this book is one of the most wide-ranging and respected surveys on kinship and marriage in African social life. In his introduction, Radcliff-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 examinations of kinship systems among the Swazi, the Tswana, the Zulu, the Nuer, and the Ashanti, to double descent among the Yakö and dual descent in the Nuba groups of the Sudan. The contributors themselves are still viewed as giants in their field: Evans-Pritchard, Meyer Fortes, Max Gluckman, Hilda Kuper, Naderl, A. I. Richards, Schapera and Monica Wilson.
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INDEX
Adoption, 40, 89.
Adultery, 50, 76, 92, 122–3, 137, 138, 181, 186, 187, 194, 201, 202, 216, 225, 233, 238, 269, 271, 275, 280, 293, 325, 326.
Affines, 107–9, 115, 124, 170–1, 387 et passim.
Age-sets, 28–9; regiments, 181, 203, 205; sexual intercourse and, 27.
Age-village organization and agemates, 111, 115, 128, 129, 130, 323; senior men in, 131.
Agnates and agnatic lineages, 13–14, 18, 20–2, 23, 67–8, 100, 113, 114, 143, 144, 147, 148, 158, 163, 177, 178, 179, 185, 194–5, 366, 386.
Akan, 252, 253 n. 2.
Ambundu, 212.
American Indians, 8.
Ancestors, the, 28, 36, 54, 86, 213, 214, 223, 232, 242–3; cult of, and the spirits, 73–4, 76, 80, 93, 97, 105, 109, 130, 137, 143, 207, 214, 224, 228 and n. 1, 237, 249, 257, 271, 362.
Anthropology, v, 55, 72, 85.
Arabs, 69, 231.
Ashanti, 29, 65, 66, 79, 80, 81, 84, 85, 252 ff., 357 n. 2, 359 n. 1.
Australia, 29.
Australian aborigines, 6, 57, 64, 68, 70, 71, 72.
Authority, 323, 324; over children and wife, 77, 79, 207–8, 215–16, 217–18, 226–7, 235, 236, 239, 246, 249, 268.
Avoidances, 55–6, 57 ff., 83...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION. By A. R. RADCLIFFE-BROWN, Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology, Oxford University
- KINSHIP AMONG THE SWAZI. By HILDA KUPER, Lecturer in Social Anthropology in the University of the Witwatersrand
- NYAKYUSA KINSHIP. By MONICA WILSON, Professor of Anthropology, Rhodes College, Grahamstown
- KINSHIP AND MARRIAGE AMONG THE TSWANA. By I. SCHAPERA, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town
- KINSHIP AND MARRIAGE AMONG THE LOZI OF NORTHERN RHODESIA AND THE ZULU OF NATAL. By MAX GLUCKMAN, Professor of Social Anthropology, Victoria University, Manchester, formerly Director of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute
- SOME TYPES OF FAMILY STRUCTURE AMONGST THE CENTRAL BANTU. By A. I. RICHARDS, Director of the East African Institute of Social Science, Makerere, formerly Reader in Social Anthropology, London School of Economics
- KINSHIP AND MARRIAGE AMONG THE ASHANTI. By M. FORTES, Professor of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University
- DOUBLE DESCENT AMONG THE YAKÖ. By DARYLL FORDE, Professor of Anthropology, University of London, Director, International African Institute
- DUAL DESCENT IN THE NUBA HILLS. By S. F. NADEL, Reader in Anthropology, King’s College, Durham University
- KINSHIP AND THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AMONG THE NUER. By E. E. EVANS-PRITCHARD, Professor of Social Anthropology, Oxford University
- INDEX