• DOI:10.1525/AA.1961.63.6.02A00020
Corpus ID: 145781123

The Dyadic Contract: A Model for the Social Structure of a Mexican Peasant Village1

@article{Foster1961TheDC,
  title={The Dyadic Contract: A Model for the Social Structure of a Mexican Peasant Village1},
  author={G. M. Foster},
  journal={American Anthropologist},
  year={1961},
  volume={63},
  pages={1173-1192}
}

• G. M. Foster
• Published 1961
• Sociology
• American Anthropologist

HE social structures of societies with unilineal descent groups are far T better known than those of societies with bilateral kinship systems, and our conceptual models for dealing with them are much more sophisticated. The differences in our relative degrees of knowledge are particularly apparent when we compare African groups with what may be called “classic peasant society,” of which the preindustrial European village is the type example.e By 1953 Fortes felt “we are now in a position to… Expand

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