Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. This symposium, compiled and edited for the International African Institute, is concerned with the study of a fundamental aspect of the organization of so-called 'primitive' societies. Professor Radcliffe-Brown, in an introductory essay, reviews the general principles underlying African systems of kinship and marriage, and traces the legal and social implications of the rules and customs regulating kinship ties and marriage in various societies both past and present. Each of the other contributors analyses a distinctive pattern of kinship organization and marriage custom as expressed in different societies in Africa today. The study is of great importance to scientific sociology, and also has a direct bearing on those urgent practical problems which arise when peoples who have lived in a largely kin-bound society are reacting to pressures and incentives from another social world. 399 pages. Seller Inventory # WB017416

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Title: African Systems of Kinship and Marriage, ...

Publisher: Oxford University

Publication Date: 1970

Binding: Paperback

Condition: VG

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