The family estate in Africa : studies in the role of property in family structure and lineage continuity /

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Too often accounts of African family life have tended to describe the family in purely static terms. The contributors to this book emphasize the developmental or time dimension of the family, analysing it as a process. In the seven different societies described in East Africa, the Congo and the Tran...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gray, Robert F., 1912- (Editor ), Gulliver, P. H. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 2004.
Colección:Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography.
Temas:
Families > Africa.
Kinship > Africa.
Familles > Afrique.
Parenté > Afrique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
Families
Kinship
Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Robert F. Gray
  • The Shambala family / E.V. Winans
  • The Gusii family / Robert A. LeVine
  • Family and lineage among the Suku of the Congo / Igor Kopytoff
  • Property and the cycle of domestic groups in Taita / Alfred Harris and Grace Harris
  • Property, cross-cousin marriage, and the family cycle among the Lobedu / Eileen Jensen Krige
  • The Arusha family / P.H. Gulliver
  • Sonjo lineage structure and property / Robert F. Gray.

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