The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive: Systems of Marriage and the Family in the Pre-Industrial Societies of EurasiaCambridge University Press, 8. feb. 1990 - 542 sider Continuing the comparative survey of pre-industrial family formation undertaken in The Development of Family and Marriage in Europe (1983), Professor Goody looks in depth at kinship practice in Asia. His findings cause him to question many traditional assumptions about the "primitive" East, and he suggests that, in contrast to pre-colonial Africa, kinship practice in Asia has much in common with that prevailing in parts of pre-industrial Europe. Goody examines the transmission of productive and other property in relation both to the prevailing political economy and to family and ideological structures, and explores the distribution of mechanisms and strategies of management across cultures. The book concludes that notions of western "uniqueness" are often misplaced, and that much previous work on Asian kinship has been unwittingly distorted by the application of concepts and approaches derived from other, inappropriate, social formations. |
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The nature of the enterprise | 1 |
Theorising | 8 |
Transfers sale and incorporation | 13 |
The plan | 16 |
The incorporation of women marriage transactions and the continuity of the house | 21 |
Diversity and unity | 26 |
A Yangtze village | 29 |
A Yunnan village | 34 |
Siblings and property in Sri Lanka | 240 |
The North and South | 250 |
Differences in relationships | 261 |
Group differences | 271 |
Demographic variables | 273 |
Female autonomy and female property | 283 |
Kinship and modes of production | 290 |
The abominations of the Egyptians | 319 |
The continuity of the house | 42 |
The lineage and the conjugal fund | 52 |
The structure and organisation of lineages | 60 |
The lineage and the domestic group | 66 |
Lineages and corporations in comparative perspective | 69 |
The conjugal fund and family fission | 79 |
Partition the conjugal group and the lineage | 86 |
Differentiation hierarchical and regional | 93 |
Hierarchy and marriage | 97 |
Regional differences | 104 |
Changes over time | 110 |
Local variation in Taiwan | 113 |
Land polyandry and celibacy in Tibet | 137 |
Polyandry and partition | 139 |
Celibacy and illegitimacy | 146 |
The nomads | 149 |
Marriage and the family in Gujarat | 160 |
Nandol | 161 |
Marriage transactions | 167 |
The high and the low | 179 |
Divorce | 184 |
Marriage transactions | 185 |
Dowry and devolution in Hindu law | 197 |
The celibacy of widows | 201 |
Strategies of continuity | 206 |
Age at marriage | 207 |
Domestic groups | 210 |
Hypergamy | 214 |
Interpersonal relationships | 219 |
The North and the South | 229 |
Unity and diversity | 230 |
Women and property | 326 |
Wills | 330 |
Explaining brothersister marriage | 332 |
Love and marriage | 339 |
Jacobs marriages | 342 |
Endowment through bride service | 347 |
Marriage and property in the Arab world | 361 |
The heiress in ancient Greece | 386 |
Monogamy property and control in Rome | 397 |
forms of marriage | 398 |
Law and change | 409 |
Women and property under the Empire | 415 |
The elementary family | 420 |
Conjugal affection | 423 |
Affection for children | 424 |
Age at marriage | 425 |
Hierarchical differences | 426 |
Dowry continuity and change in the eastern Mediterranean | 429 |
A hill settlement in Albania | 430 |
The Sarakatsani shepherds | 434 |
Farmers in southern Greece | 439 |
The endowment of women in time and space | 443 |
Asia and Europe | 465 |
Women and property | 468 |
Wider kin groups and the written law | 478 |
Western and eastern families | 482 |
Notes | 488 |
References | 508 |
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