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The works selected here form a cross-section of the landmarks in the complex and controversial field of family studies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Featuring writings from eminent sociologists such as Morgan, Starcke, Rivers, Groves, Ogburn and Nimkoff, the collection * traces the sociology of the family from its origins in the anthropological study of kinship in the late... Read more
Readings in the Anthropology and Sociology of Family and Kinship Bryan S. Turner, Primitive MArriage [1865] John F. McLennan, Ancient Society: Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery through Barbarism to Civilization [1877] Lewis H. Morgan, The Primitive Family [1889] C.N. Starcke, The Family [1912 (1931)] F. Muller-Lyer, Kinship and Social Organization [1914] W.H.R. Rivers, American Marriage and Family Relations [1928] E.R. Groves and W.F. Ogburn, The Family [1934] M.F. Nimkoff, Predicting Success or Failure in Marriage E.W. Burgess and L.S. Cottrell
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Edited by Bryan S. Turner
