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Affinity and the role of the father in the Trobriandsarticle 1967 • Sider, Karen Blu
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
This work begins with a brief survey of Trobriand society, is followed by a discussion of the major questions about matrilineal and affinal relationships and the role of the father, then Sider's own reanalysis of the data presented in the earlier wor...