African Systems of Kinship and Marriage

by Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Reginald; Forde, Daryll

• ISBN13: 9780710302342
• ISBN10: 0710302347
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-03-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

African Systems of Kinship and Marriage is a classic. Seldom out of print since its first publication in 1950, it is still, thirty-six years later, the most wide-ranging and respected survey of these aspects of African social life.
In his introduction Radcliffe-Brown provides a masterly analysis of the main features of African kinship systems and the theoretical problems arising from the study of them. The contributions range from examination of kinship systems among the Swazi, the Tswana, the Zulu, the Nuer, the Ashanti to double descent among the Yako and dual descent in the Nuba groups of the Sudan. The names of the contributors are those of anthropologists still viewed today as giants in their field: Evans-Pritchard, Meyer Fortes, Max Gluckman, Hilda Kuper, Nadel, A.I. Richards, Schapera and Monica Wilson.

Author Biography

A.R. Radcliffe-Brown was Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford.

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Illustrations
Introduction	p. 1
Kinship among the Swazi	p. 86
Nyakyusa Kinship	p. 111
Kinship and Marriage among the Tswana	p. 140
Kinship and Marriage among the Lozi of Northern Rhodesia and the Zulu of Natal	p. 166
Some Types of Family Structure amongst the Central Bantu	p. 207
Kinship and Marriage among the Ashanti	p. 252
Double Descent among the Yako	p. 285
Dual Descent in the Nuba Hills	p. 333
Kinship and the Local Community among the Nuer	p. 360
Index	p. 392
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