Mating and marriage
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Mating and marriage
(Biosocial Society series / series editor, G.A. Harrison, no. 3)
Oxford University Press, 1991
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  Iwate
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  Tochigi
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  Saitama
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  Tokyo
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Gifu
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  Kyoto
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  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
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  Fukuoka
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  Miyazaki
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Whilst both animals and human beings engage in mating, only humans observe the ritual of marriage. Is marriage an outgrowth at the cultural level of the kinds of mating arrangements observed in animals, or is it inherently different? This question is explored here from the differing perspectives of zoology, biological anthropology, social anthropology, and sociology. The aim is to bring together these different approaches, indicating the problems and exploring the
possibilities for a synthesis.
Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Jane A. Rees & Paul H. Harvey: The evolution of animal mating systems
- Vernon Reynolds: The biological basis of human patterns of mating and marriage
- Edmund Leach: The social anthropology of mating and marriage
- Ronald Fletcher: Mating, the family, and marriage
- Index.
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