Kinship and Marriage: An Anthropological Perspective

292 Pages·1984·11.154 MB·English

by  Robin Fox

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CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
GENERAL EDITOR: JACK GOODY
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KINSHIP AND MARRIAGE
Robin Fox was born in England in 1934. He was educated at the
London School of Economics, Harvard, and Stanford and taught at
the universities of Exeter and London before being asked to found
a department at Rutgers University, where he has been Professor of
Anthropology since 1967. Since 1972 he has also served as a direc-
tor of research for the H. F. Guggenheim Foundation. His first
fieldwork was in New Mexico and he later made an extensive study
in north-west Ireland, which was published as The Tory Islanders. He
cooperated with Lionel Tiger on The Imperial Animal, a book that
helped launch the now well-established “neo-Darwinian” movement
in the social sciences. His most recent work is The Red Lamp of Incest:
An Enquiry into the Origins of Mind and Society. He has taught at the
universities of Oxford, Paris, Cambridge, California (San Diego),
and Los Andes (Colombia) as a visiting professor. He is currently
writing a verse-prose commentary on the human condition and a
book on the history of social thought since the Renaissance.
Other books by Robin Fox
The Keresan Bridge: A Problem in Pueblo Ethnology
Encounter with Anthropology
The Imperial Animal (with Lionel Tiger)
Biosocial Anthropology (editor)
The Tory Islanders: A People of the Celtic Fringe
The Red Lamp of Incest: An Enquiry into the Origins of Mind and Society
ROBIN FOX
KINSHIP AND MARRIAGE
An Anthropological Perspective
a) CAMBRIDGE
(5) UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Copyright © Robin Fox 1967
Originally published in a paperback edition by
Penguin Books, Ltd., 1967
Hardcover edition first published by
Cambridge University Press 1983
United States paperback edition reissued (with a new Preface) by
Cambridge University Press 1983
Reprinted 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Fox, Robin 1934-
Kinship and marriage.
(Cambridge studies in social anthropology; no. 50)
Reprint. Originally published: Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1967. With new pref.
Bibliography: p.
1. Kinship. 2. Marriage customs and rites.
I. Title. II. Series
GN487.F69 1983 306.83 83-15267
ISBN 0-52 1-26073-6 hardback
ISBN O-521-27823-6 paperback
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Contents
PREFACE TO THE CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY PRESS EDITION
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
INTRODUCTION
13
Kinship, family, and descent
27
nN The incest problem 54
Local groups and descent groups cM
Unilineal descent groups o7
Segmentation and double descent 122
Cognatic descent and ego-centred groups 146
Exogamy and direct exchange 175
Asymmetrical and complex systems 208
Kinship terminology 240
cSieaseo e poii
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING 263
INDEX 269