Primitive Marriage: An Inquiry into the Origin of the Form of Capture in Marriage Ceremonies (Classics in Anthropology)

ohn Ferguson McLennan, Peter Rivière (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0226560805 / ISBN 13: 9780226560809

Published by University of Chicago Press, 1970

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li, 152 pages, 1 leaf of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents: Introductory: Legal Symbolism and Primitive Life The Form of Capture in Marriage Ceremonies The Origin of the Form of Capture On the Prevalence of the Practice of Capturing Wives, de facto Of the Rule against Marriage between Members of the Same Tribe-of the Coincidence of This Rule with the Practice of Capturing Wives, de facto. And the Form of Capture in Marriage Ceremonies On the State of Hostility Exogamy: Its Origin-Comparative Archaism of Exogamy and Endogamy Ancient Systems of Kinship and Their Influence on the Structure of Primitive Groups The Decay of Exogamy in Advancing Communities.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Primitive Marriage: An Inquiry into the Origin of the Form of Capture in Marriage Ceremonies (Classics in Anthropology)
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226560805
• ISBN 13: 9780226560809
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthropology

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Synopsis

Anthropology, Sociology