Why Marry Her? : Society and Symbolic Structures (Paperback)

Preface; Introduction: travel memories; Part I. Structure and Social Praxis: 1. A defence and illustration of the structures of kinship; 2. Social structure and praxis among the Lele of the Kasai; Postscript: horizontal and vertical exchanges; 3. The debt of the maternal uncle: contribution to the study of complex structures of kinship; Postscript: the Omaha system; 4. Structure and history: views on the Kachin; Part II. Religion: 5. Possession and shamanism; 6. The madness of the gods and the reason of men; Notes; Bibliography; Index.