Journal article
Marriage by capture
- Abstract:
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The theories of John F. McLennan have long been dismissed as disproved or passe. Meanwhile, modern ethnography has produced increasingly sophisticated ethnographic accounts relevant to his ideas. This article looks at a sample of that ethnography from Indonesia, the Caribbean, Amazonia, Australia and New Guinea to see what it might have to say about McLennan's hypotheses, particularly in respect to marriage by capture and linguistic exogamy. Modern anthropological discussions are reminiscent ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Journal website
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 57-73
- Publication date:
- 1999-03-01
- EISSN:
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1467-9655
- ISSN:
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1359-0987
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:9710
- Deposit date:
- 2015-01-09
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- Copyright holder:
- Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
- Copyright date:
- 1999
- Notes:
- © 1999 Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publication link on this record page.
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