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Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Going Against the Grain, Again
Barbara Bodenhorn, Alicia Fentiman and Mary Goody
Chapter 1. Wives into Sisters, Sisters into Wives
Marilyn Strathern
Chapter 2. Fragments of Intimacy and the Reassembling of Relations
Barbara Bodenhorn
Chapter 3. The Visible Invisibilities of the Circulation of Women in the Ottoman Mediterranean and Their Implications
Paul Sant Cassia
Chapter 4. The Circulation of Women and Children, and Everybody Else… Half a Century Later
Lynne Brydon
Chapter 5. Video, Voice and Vygotsky: Narratives of Learning among the Konkomba of Northern Ghana
Alicia Fentiman
Chapter 6. Lessons in Milking and Lessons in Math
Cataline Laserna
Chapter 7. Singing the Names: Custom and Chronology in Mamprusi Drum Histories
Susan Drucker Brown
Appendix: BAAMYO’S TEXT
Chapter 8. One Snake is the Biggest in the Pond: Religious Change, Funerals and Linguistic Evidence in Mambila
David Zeitlyn
Chapter 9. Childrearing through Social Interaction on Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea
Penny Brown and Marisa Casillis
Conclusion
Felicia Kafui Etsey
Afterword
John Keith Hart
Appendices
Index
Building Social Worlds
Thinking forwards with Esther Newcomb Goody
Edited by Barbara Bodenhorn, Alicia Fentiman, Mary Goody
410 pages, 27 ills., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80539-952-0 Hb Published (April 2025)
eISBN 978-1-80539-953-7
web ISBN 978-1-80539-953-7