Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Reconstructing early Irish Society : sources and scholarship
  • The development of early Irish law and society
  • The material context of social relations
  • The spatial organization of society
  • The seasonal rhythms of social life
  • The political economy : clientship
  • Rank
  • Close kin and neighbors : Gelfhine and Comaithches
  • The forms of Irish kinship
  • The corporate fine : control of economic action
  • Marriage, sexual relations, and the affiliation of children
  • Kinship and the proto-state.