Chapter-Related Readings

Latest edition of well-known case study of marital alliances and politics in a nonindustrial society--now in the context of genocide and habitat destruction.

Chagnon, N.. (1997). Yanomamö, 5th ed.. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace.

Marriage and issues of gender stratification in bands and tribes.

Collier, J. F., ed.. (1988). Marriage and Inequality in Classless Societies. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Well-written survey of kinship and marriage systems and theories about them.

Fox, R.. (1985). Kinship and Marriage. New York: Viking Penguin.

Latest edition of classic case study of Tiwi marriage arrangements, including polygyny, and social change over 60 years of anthropological study.

Hart, C. W. M., A. R. Pilling, and J. C. Goodale. (1988). The Tiwi of North Australia, 3rd ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace.

Marital exchanges in comparative perspective.

Goody, J., and S. T. Tambiah. (1973). Bridewealth and Dowry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

A collection of essays on sati and a celebrated case from India.

Hawley, J. S., ed.. (1993). Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India. New York: Oxford University Press.

Love and marriage, including the ceremony, in today's United Sates.

Ingraham, C.. (1999). White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture. New York: Routledge.

Case study of fraternal polyandry and household organization in northwestern Nepal.

Levine, N. E.. (1988). The Dynamics of Polyandry: Kinship, Domesticity, and Population in the Tibetan Border. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Classic study of sex, marriage, and kinship among the matrilineal Trobrianders.

Malinowski, B.. (1985). (orig. 1927) Sex and Repression in Savage Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Murray, S. O., and W. Roscoe, eds.. (1998). Boy-Wives and Female Husbands: Studies in African Homosexualities. New York: St. Martin’s.
Same-sex sex and marriage in Africa.

Reissue of a classic work, indispensable to understand kinship, descent, and marriage.

Radcliffe-Brown, A. R., and D. Forde, eds.. (1994). African Systems of Kinship and Marriage. New York: Columbia University Press.

A view from Israel, based on a case study in the kibbutz.

Shepher, J.. (1983). Incest, a Biosocial View. New York: Academic Press.

An insider's account of social life, including marriage, love, and sex from a Ju/'hoansi San woman.

Shostak, M.. (1981). Nisa, the Life and Words of a !Kung Woman. New York: Vintage Books.

Shostak, M.. (2000). Return to Nisa. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
A revisit to the !Kung woman immortalized in Shostak's earlier book, Nisa.

Current marriage and divorce trends in Great Britain.

Simpson, B.. (1998). Changing Families: An Ethnographic Approach to Divorce and Separation.. New York: Berg.

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