Navajo Kinship and Marriage

Navajo Kinship and Marriage
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 156
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ISBN-10 : 0226904180
ISBN-13 : 9780226904184
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Download or read book Navajo Kinship and Marriage written by Gary Witherspoon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword David M. Schneider Preface 1: Kinship as a Cultural System 2: Mother and Child and the Nature of Kinship 3: Marriage and the Nature of Affinity 4: Father and Child 5: The Descent System 6: The Concepts of Sex, Generation, Sibling Order, and Distance 7: Kinship and Affinal Solidarity as Symbolized in the Enemyway 8: Social Organization in the Rough Rock-Black Mountain Area 9: Residence in the Subsistence Residential Unit 10: Subsistence in the Subsistence Residential Unit 11: Unity in the Subsistence Residential Unit 12: The Navajo Outfit as a Set of Related Subsistence Residential Units13: The Web of Affinity 14: The Social Universe of the Navajo Notes Bibliography Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.


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