The oriental, the ancient, and the primitive : systems of marriage and the family in the pre-industrial societies of Eurasia / Jack Goody
- Bib ID:
- 1714570
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- Author:
- Goody, Jack
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990
- xix, 542 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
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- 0521365740
- 0521367611
- Series:
- Studies in literacy, family, culture, and the state.
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- Preface
- 1. The nature of the enterprise
- Part I. China: 2. The incorporation of women
- 3. The lineage and the conjugal fund
- 4. Differentiation, hierarchical and regional
- 5. Land, polyandry and celibacy in Tibet
- Part II. India: 6. Marriage and the family in Gujarat (with Esther Goody)
- 7. The high and the low
- 8. The North and the South
- 9. Kinship and modes of production
- Part III. The Near East: 10. The abominations of the Egyptians
- 11. Jacob's marriages
- 12. Marriage and property in the Arab world
- Part IV. Greece and Rome, Yesterday and Today: 13. The heiress in ancient Greece
- 14. Monogamy, property and control in Rome
- 15. Dowry, continuity and change in the eastern Mediterranean
- 16. Asia and Europe
- Notes
- References
- Index.
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 508-532.
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