Jack Goody

John Rankine Goody

Professor Goody's research in West Africa resulted in finding an alternative way of thinking about 'traditional' societies.

The Domestication of the Savage Mind

An ambitious general study of the development of marriage, family and conjugal roles in the change from hoe to plough agriculture, relating African society to Asian and European.

A Comparative Study of the Domestic Domain

Production and Reproduction

An original theory asserts that this distinctive form of kinship system developed in the northern Mediterranean around the fourth century A.D., and that its subsequent growth can be attributed to the efforts of the early Christian Church to acquire property formerly held by domestic groups.

The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe

S. J. Tambiah

In these insightful 1973 papers two leading authorities make a wide-ranging review of ideas and materials on bridewealth and dowry.

John Rankine Goody

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