Navajo Kinship and Marriage

145 pages
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25 line drawings
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5-1/2 x 8-1/2
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© 1975
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Table of Contents

Contents
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 Units
13: The Web of Affinity
14: The Social Universe of the Navajo
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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 Units
13: The Web of Affinity
14: The Social Universe of the Navajo
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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