TY - BOOK AU - Goody,Jack AU - Fortes,Meyer TI - The Character of kinship SN - 0521202906 AV - GN480 .C53 U1 - 301.421GOO PY - 1973///] CY - Cambridge [Eng.] PB - University Press KW - Fortes, Meyer. KW - Kinship KW - Families KW - Marriage N1 - Published on the occasion of the retirement of Meyer Fortes; Bibliography: p. 236-248; Barth, F. Descent and marriage reconsidered.--Strathern, A. Kinship, descent and locality: some New Guinea examples.--La Fontaine, J. Descent in New Guinea: an Africanist view.--Leach, E. Complementary filiation and bilateral kinship.--Barnes, J. A. Genetrix: genitor:: nature: culture?--Bloch, M. The long term and the short term: the economic and political significance of the morality of kinship.--Pitt-Rivers, J. The kith and the kin.--Freeman, D. Kinship, attachment behaviour and the primary bond.--Smith, R. T. The matrifocal family.--Harris, G. Furies, witches and mothers.--Abrahams, R. G. Some aspects of levirate.--Goody, J. Polygyny, economy and the role of women.--Tambiah, S. J. From varna to caste through mixed unions.--Barnes, J. A. Bibliography of the writings of Meyer Fortes (p. 231-235) ER -