List of illustrations List of tables Preface 1. The nature of the enterprise Part I. China: 2. The incorporation of women 3. The lineage and the conjugal fund 4. Differentiation, hierarchical and regional 5. Land, polyandry and celibacy in Tibet Part II. India: 6. Marriage and the family in Gujarat (with Esther Goody) 7. The high and the low 8. The North and the South 9. Kinship and modes of production Part III. The Near East: 10. The abominations of the Egyptians 11. Jacob's marriages 12. Marriage and property in the Arab world Part IV. Greece and Rome, Yesterday and Today: 13. The heiress in ancient Greece 14. Monogamy, property and control in Rome 15. Dowry, continuity and change in the eastern Mediterranean 16. Asia and Europe Notes References Index.
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