ABSTRACT

This volume is concerned with two of the fundamental topics of social anthropology, kinship and marriage, approached from a variety of viewpoints by an international group of contributors of diverse experience and background.
The wide range of subjects examined includes: Incest, epistemology, linguistics, prescriptive alliance and methodology.
Fieldwork from the following countries is drawn on: Burma, Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Australia, Africa and South America.

chapter intro

Introduction

chapter 2|22 pages

Meanings of Kinship

chapter 3|18 pages

Marriage: A Reassessment

chapter 6|12 pages

Marriage and Exchange in the Sepik

Comments on Francis Korn's Analysis of Iatmul Society

chapter 10|34 pages

Sister's Child as Plant

Metaphors in an Idiom of Consanguinity 1