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Author Fortes, Meyer.

Title The web of kinship among the Tallensi : the second part of an analysis of the social structure of a Trans-Volta tribe
Published Oosterhout N.B. : Anthropological Publications ; London : Oxford University Press : [distributed in the U.S.A. by Humanities Press, New York], 1967

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Description xiv, 358 pages : 16 plates ; 23 cm
Contents 1. Introductory -- 2. Kinship and the lineage system -- 3. The homestead and the joint family -- 4. Husband and wife in the structure of the family -- 5. Parents and children in the framework of the lineage -- 6. The moral basis of the relationship of parent and child -- 7. The genetic development of parent-child relationships -- 8. Tensions in the parent-child relatonship -- 9. Grandparents and grandchildren -- 10. Siblings in the social structure -- 11. The web of extra-clan kinship -- 12. The functions of kinship
Notes Bibliographical footnotes
Bibliography Bibliographical footnotes
Subject Kinship.
Tallensi (African people)
LC no. 67109317