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The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive: Systems of Marriage and the Family in the Pre-Industrial Societies of Eurasia

by Jack Goody

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 3.3 cm

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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.
The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive: Systems of Marriage and the Family in the Pre-Industrial Societies of Eurasia and Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe
Development of the Family and Marriage in EuropeThe Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive: Systems of Marriage and the Family in the Pre-Industrial Societies of Eurasia

  • Author

    Jack Goody

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    February 1990

  • Weight

    822g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 3.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521367615

  • ISBN-10

    0521367611

  • Eden Code

    5006028

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