Add this copy of Choice and Constraint in a Swahili Community Property, to cart. $29.95, very good condition, Sold by Last Exit Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Charlottesville, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Published for the International African Institute By Oxford Univ. Press.
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Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by For International African Institute by Oxford Unversity Press, Oxford, UK. 1975, xix, 162 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Originally published in 1975, this book examines property and power relations in a Swahili village on Mafia Island off Tanzania. It focuses on the cognatic descent groups which are important in many areas of village life such as land-holding, marriage, residence, Islamic activities and spirit possession cults. Some anthropologists have contended that groups with multiple membership cannot be viable social units, but this book shows that such a system can actually work. In showing how the cognatic descent groups actually operate, both an ideology of descent group membership and also numerical material about patterns of choice are presented. This involves the construction of both mechanical and statistical models, as well as a decision model to discuss the constraints governing choices. EB; 162 pages.
Add this copy of Choice and Constraint in a Swahili Community: Property, to cart. $44.61, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Published for the Internationa.
