Sex and age as principles of social differentiation / edited by J.S. La Fontaine

London ; New York : Academic Press, 1978. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: vi, 188 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. Notes: 'The papers presented here represent six out of eight papers delivered at the Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists at Swansea in April 1977' - Preface. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Complementarity and conflict: an Andean view of women and men / O. Harris -- Food for thought: patterns of production and consumption in Pira-Parana society / C. Hugh-Jones -- Aspects of the distinction between the sexes in the Nyamwezi and some other African systems of kinship and marriage / R.G. Abrahams -- Sex, age and social control in mobs of the Darwin hinterland / B. Sansom -- Roles of children in urban Kano / E. Schildkrout -- Gerontocracy, polygyny and scarce resources / U. Almagor -- Observations about generations / P.T. Baxter and U. Almagor. Subjects: Sex role. Age groups. Social groups. Differentiation (Sociology). Social structure. Sex role Addresses, essays, lectures. Differentiation (Sociology); Congresses. Genre: Bibliography. Illustrated.