"The Character of Kinship" von Jack Goody ist ein tiefgründiges Werk, das die Rolle und Struktur der Verwandtschaft in verschiedenen Kulturen untersucht. Goody analysiert die sozialen, wirtschaftlichen und religiösen Aspekte der...

"Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800" von Jack Goody ist eine tiefgründige soziologische Studie, die sich auf das Familienleben und Erbschaftspraktiken in ländlichen Gemeinschaften Westeuropas im...

Professor Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive eurocentric or occidentalist biases of so much western historical writing. Goody also examines the...

Around 300 A.D. European patterns of marriage and kinship were turned on their head. What had previously been the norm - marriage to close kin - became the new taboo. The same applied to adoption, the obligation of a man to marry his...