Comparative family systems /

Comparative family systems / Editor, M.F. Nimkoff.

This book is concerned with the major variations in the organization of the human family: what they are, what causes them and what differences they make. - Preface.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nimkoff, Meyer F. 1904-1965.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1965]
Subjects:
Families.
Family members.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Comparative studies of the family
  • Types of family
  • Interchange : society and family. The social system and the family
  • The family and the social system
  • Cases. Marriage and the family in Northeastern Arnhem Land / Ronald M. Berndt
  • Family in Tikopia / Raymond Firth
  • Aspects of the family among the Bedouin of Cyrenaica / E.L. Peters
  • The Papago family / Ruth M. Underhill
  • The Nayars of South Malabar / Joan P. Mencher
  • The Tibetan family system / H.R.H. Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark
  • The traditional Indian family / M.S. Gore
  • The family in Ireland / Alexander J. Humphreys
  • The family in a revolutionary movement : the case of the Kibbutz in Israel / Yonina Talmon
  • The Japanese family / Ezra F. Vogel
  • The Soviet family / Kent Geiger
  • The American family / M.F. Nimkoff
  • Change. World trends
  • The future of the family
  • Appendixes. Bibliography of cross-cultural studies of the family
  • Comparative family films.

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