ABSTRACT
Reprinted from The Developmental Cycle in Domestic Groups, edited by Jack Goody, pp. 92-119. Copyright 1958, Cambridge University Press. At the time of his death in 1964, Derrick J. Stenning was Director of Research at the East African Institute of Social Research in Uganda. He had previously been a professor of Anthropology at University College in London and a Lecturer in the Faculty of Archeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University and had done field work with the Ankole.
