Kinship, Power and Dissent
5 questions
Five questions spanning both society depth waves: founding theorists and kinship terms alongside this wave's conflict theory, patrilocal residence and the Mead-Samoa controversy.
Descent, Dowry and the Two Families
5 questions
Five questions from the wave that minted E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Dowry, Nuclear Family and Extended Family: the fieldwork among the Azande and the Nuer, the theory it produced, and the live scholarly disputes over family form and over structure versus agency.
Institutions and the People Who Explained Them
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Five questions on the theorists and disputes behind bureaucracy, matriarchy, patriarchy and meritocracy.