Marriage, family, and residence / edited by Paul Bohannan and John Middleton.

Garden City, N.Y. : Published for the American Museum of Natural History [by] the Natural History Press, 1968.

xi, 411 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

I. Incest and exogamy : The incest taboo and the mating patterns of animals / David F. Aberle, et al. -- A comparative approach to incest and adultery / Jack Goody -- II. Marriage : The Nayars and the definition of marriage / E. Kathleen Gough -- Polyandry, inheritance and the definition of marriage, with particular reference to Sinhalese customary law / E.R. Leach -- Dahomean marriage / Laura Bohannon -- Secondary marriage among Kandara and Kagoro / M.G. Smith -- Spouse-exchange among the north Alaskan Eskimo / Robert F. Spencer -- III. Marriage forms : Pahari polyandry / Gerald D. Berreman -- The social use of kinship terms among Brazilian Indians / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- The structure of parallel cousin marriage / Robert F. Murphy and Leonard Kasdan -- The marriage alliance / Louis Dumont -- IV. The family : The family, some comparative considerations / M.J. Levy and L.A. Fallers -- Is the family universal? / Melford E. Spiro -- Intergenerational conflict among the Mossi, father and son / Elliott F. Skinner -- The family system of Jamaica / William Davenport -- V. Residence and household : Marquesan polyandry / Keith F. Otterbein / Residence rules / Ward H. Goodenough -- An alternate residence classification / Paul Bohannon -- VI. Some special problems : An analysis of ritual co-parenthood (Compadrazo) / Sudney W. Mintz and Eric R. Wolf -- Teknonymy in Bali, parenthood, age-grading and genealogical amnesia / Hildred and Clifford Geertz.

Includes bibliographical references and indexy.