African Systems of Kinship and Marriage - Paperback

by A. R. Radcliffe-Brown (Author), Daryll Forde (Author)

First published in 1950 and this edition in 1987, this book is one of the most wide-ranging and respected surveys on kinship and marriage in African social life. In his introduction, Radcliff-Brown provides a masterly analysis of the main features of African kinship systems and the theoretical problems arising from the study of them.