Marriage and Inequality in Classless Societies. (book reviews)

The study of social relations has always been an important intellectual focus of Americanist studies. Fred Eggan's pioneering work defining structural aspects of Cheyenne and Arapaho kinship systems and his later social organizational systems among the western Pueblos attest to the importance of utilizing both historical sources and contemporary data collected through fieldwork.

Eggan consistently pointed to the importance of what he termed the controlled ethnographic comparison. Jane Fishburne Collier's recent study is an impressive contribution to the literature of this subfield. ...

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