One of the world's most eminent social anthropologists draws upon his many years of study and research in the field of kinship and social organization to review the development of anthropological theory and method from Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) to anthropologists of the 1960s

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AldineTransaction Introduction, Lionel Tiger, Foreword, Alfred Harris, Preface, PART I. RETROSPECT, Chapter i. Morgan: The Founding Father, Chapter ii. The Line of Succession: From Morgan to Radcliffe-Brown, Chapter iii. Morgan and the Analytical Approach, Chapter iv. Radcliffe-Brown and the Development of Structural Analysis, Chapter ?. Toward the Jural Dimension, PART II. PARADIGMATIC ETHNOGRAPHICAL SPECIMENS, Chapter vi. A Methodological Excursus, Chapter vii. The Kinship Polity, Chapter viii. Cognatic Systems and the Politico-Jural Domain, Chapter ix. The Ashanti: State and Citizenship, Chapter x. The Lineage in Ashanti, Chapter xi. Ashanti Patrilateral Kinship and its Values, PART III. SOME ISSUES IN STRUCTURAL THEORY, Chapter xii. Kinship and the Axiom of Amity, Chapter xiii. Filiation Reconsidered, Chapter xiv. Descent and the Corporate Group, Bibliography, Index