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Kinship _Marriag PNaly-Valedlea)l ielgeye(er)-| | Perspective 0521278236 | CAMBRIDGE MAIeacsra Oliver Po OT -O144 CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY GENERAL EDITOR: JACK GOODY 50 KINSHIP AND MARRIAGE Robin Fox was born in England in 1934. He was educated at the London School of Economics, Harvard, and Stanford and taught at the universities of Exeter and London before being asked to found a department at Rutgers University, where he has been Professor of Anthropology since 1967. Since 1972 he has also served as a direc- tor of research for the H. F. Guggenheim Foundation. His first fieldwork was in New Mexico and he later made an extensive study in north-west Ireland, which was published as The Tory Islanders. He cooperated with Lionel Tiger on The Imperial Animal, a book that helped launch the now well-established “neo-Darwinian” movement in the social sciences. His most recent work is The Red Lamp of Incest: An Enquiry into the Origins of Mind and Society. He has taught at the universities of Oxford, Paris, Cambridge, California (San Diego), and Los Andes (Colombia) as a visiting professor. He is currently writing a verse-prose commentary on the human condition and a book on the history of social thought since the Renaissance. Other books by Robin Fox The Keresan Bridge: A Problem in Pueblo Ethnology Encounter with Anthropology The Imperial Animal (with Lionel Tiger) Biosocial Anthropology (editor) The Tory Islanders: A People of the Celtic Fringe The Red Lamp of Incest: An Enquiry into the Origins of Mind and Society ROBIN FOX KINSHIP AND MARRIAGE An Anthropological Perspective a) CAMBRIDGE (5) UNIVERSITY PRESS Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge cB2 1RP 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Victoria 3166, Australia Copyright © Robin Fox 1967 Originally published in a paperback edition by Penguin Books, Ltd., 1967 Hardcover edition first published by Cambridge University Press 1983 United States paperback edition reissued (with a new Preface) by Cambridge University Press 1983 Reprinted 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Fox, Robin 1934- Kinship and marriage. (Cambridge studies in social anthropology; no. 50) Reprint. Originally published: Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967. With new pref. Bibliography: p. 1. Kinship. 2. Marriage customs and rites. I. Title. II. Series GN487.F69 1983 306.83 83-15267 ISBN 0-52 1-26073-6 hardback ISBN O-521-27823-6 paperback Seek Cariat e Contents PREFACE TO THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS EDITION PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION INTRODUCTION 13 Kinship, family, and descent 27 nN The incest problem 54 Local groups and descent groups cM Unilineal descent groups o7 Segmentation and double descent 122 Cognatic descent and ego-centred groups 146 Exogamy and direct exchange 175 Asymmetrical and complex systems 208 Kinship terminology 240 cSieaseo e poii REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING 263 INDEX 269