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

by Jack Goody

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521367611
• ISBN13: 9780521367615
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 564 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 9.2"