The essays in this collection focus attention on the enormous contribution made by women in maintaining family relations in situations of both racial and gender domination.
In Re-inventing Africa, Ifi Amadiume challenges Western anthropologists to recognise that they have constructed a version of Africa that reflects their own class-based, patriarchal thought.
In The Law of the Father? Mary Murray develops a new perspective on the class-patriarchy relationship. Women's rights in and to property are explored in pre-capitalist and capitalist society. Exploring the links between kinship, property and patriarchy as symbiotic and fundament…
About the house: Lévi-Strauss and beyond
The 'house' is at once a physical place and a social unit, and is often also a unit of production and consumption, a cult group, and even a political faction. Inspired by Levi-Strauss's suggestion that the multi-functional noble houses of medieval Europe were simply the best-kno…
