Marriage and Inequality in Classless Societies - Hardcover

Collier, Jane Fishburne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804713650 ISBN 13: 9780804713658

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1988

Synopsis

This study presents three ideal type models for analysing inequality in kin-based, nonstratified societies that are commonly described as bands, tribes, or ranked societies (but not chiefdoms). Each model discusses the organisation of inequality associated with a particular way of validating marriages. The book is a serious and complex effort to understand the bases and dynamics of inequality in classless societies. It is the most sophisticated argument to date for the position that there is a culturally structured basis for women's universal subordination. An important strength of Collier's theoretical interpretation is that it makes the case for universality of subordination without slipping into biological reductionism.

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From the Back Cover:

“This is a courageous and theoretically significant synthesis of the kinds of questions that currently preoccupy much anthropological analysis of the political, economic, or kinship entailments of social inequality.”—American Journal of Sociology

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0804713650
• ISBN 13: 9780804713658
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312