Buxbaum David C Editor (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Edition 1967. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Edition 1967. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.…

151p., introduction, footnotes, contributors notes, index, very good first edition in cloth, gilt and dj. International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology Volume V; general editor, K. Ishwaran.

viii + 553pp, bibliography, glossary, index, dustjacket. Covers lightly marked, dustjacket marked and faded on spine, a good copy. "The first section includes an examination of the standards and rules for marriage during Han times, and of divorce in traditional Chinese law. The second section, devoted to family partition procedures, discusses the nature of family property in traditional China; the results of a field investigation on ancestral sacrifice in Manchuria; and the partition of family property in villages in southern Taiwan and in Tibet. The third section, dealing only with Taiwan, examines marriage in rural areas, summarizes field research on rural to urban migration, and looks at modernization and household composition. An investigation of marriage and divorce in the People's Republic of China, and comparisons of developments in marriage law in the USSR and in the People's Republic of China are dealt with in the fourth section. In the fifth section the authors indicate some factors that influence the relationship of law and social change in India and Indonesia." (Publisher's description). …