It takes the average reader 6 hours and 50 minutes to read African Systems of Kinship and Marriage by A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
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First published in 1950 and this edition in 1987, this book is one of the most wide-ranging and respected surveys on kinship and marriage in African social life. In his introduction, Radcliff-Brown provides a masterly analysis of the main features of African kinship systems and the theoretical problems arising from the study of them. The contributions range from examinations of kinship systems among the Swazi, the Tswana, the Zulu, the Nuer, and the Ashanti, to double descent among the Yakö and dual descent in the Nuba groups of the Sudan. The contributors themselves are still viewed as...
African Systems of Kinship and Marriage by A. R. Radcliffe-Brown is 398 pages long, and a total of 102,684 words.
This makes it 134% the length of the average book. It also has 125% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 21 minutes to read African Systems of Kinship and Marriage aloud.
African Systems of Kinship and Marriage is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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