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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xvii+379+[2 ad] pages with frontispiece, tables and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") issued in beige with red lettering spine and front cover. Studies in Anthropology. First edition. Contents: Variant Usage in American Kinship: The Nomenclator Effect by Gary Combs; The Uses of Kinship: Kwaio, Solomon Islands by Roger M Kessing; Incest and Kinship Structure by Karl H Schwerin; The Hopi-Tewa System of Mating of First Mesa, Arizona: Some Biological, Linquistic, and Cultural Aspects by James N Spuhler; Navajo Exogamic Rules and Preferred Marriages by David F Aberle; The Kpelle Negotiation of Marriage and Matrilateral Ties by Caroline H Bledsoe and William P Murphy; Kinship and Descent in the Ethnic Reassertion of the Eastern Creek Indians by J Anthony Paredes; Kinship Ties and the Preferred Adaptive Strategies of Urban Migrants; by Theodore D and Nancy B Graves; Kin Networks and Family Strategies: Working Class Portuguese Families in New England; by Louise Lamphere, Filomena M Silva and John P Sousa; Familienpolitik: Alliance in a Closed Corporate Community by Robert McC Netting; Kinship and Social Organization in Terra del Fuego: Evolutionary Consequences by David E Stuart; Population Regulation among the Bokkos Fulani by Joseph V Hickey; Navajo Political Economy before Fort Sumner by Klara B Kelley; Matrilineal Ideology: The Economic Activities of Women in Luapula, Zambia by Karla O Poewe; The Resilience of Matrilineality: Gwembe and Plateau Tonga Adaptations by Elizabeth Colson. Condition: A near fine copy in a fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 379 pages. Cloth binding is sound and unworn. This is a presumably unread publisher's archive copy with no markings on the interior pages. There is one light rubberstamp on the top edge of the textblock. Still a very nice copy in a nice dust jacket. Essays include: Variant Usage in American Kinship: The Nomenclator Effect, The Uses of Kinship in Kwaio Soloman Islands, Incest and Kinship Structure, The Hopi-Tewa System of Mating on First Mesa Arizona: Some Biological - Linguistic and Cultural Aspects, Navajo Exogamic Rules and Preferred Marriages, The Kpelle Negotiation of Marriage and Matrilatral Ties, Kinship and Descent in the Ethnic Reassertion the Eastern Creek Indians, Kinship Ties and the Preferred Adaptive Strategies of Urban Migrants, Population Regulation among the Bokkos Fulani, Navajo Political Economy before Fort Sumner, , etc. PRIC|91.0.