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T. M. Charles-Edwards, Early Irish and Welsh Kinship (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, 597 pp., ISBN 0-19-820103-6, £55).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Nerys Thomas Patterson
Nerys Thomas Patterson*
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University of Wales, Bangor
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Journal of European Archaeology , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , Autumn 1993 , pp. 211 - 218
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2. See pp. 8–12 of Jack Goody, 1990. The Oriental, the Ancient, and the Primitive. Cambridge.Google Scholar

3. I have reviewed the texts that are pertinent to the theory of kinship contractionelsewhere: 1990. Patrilineal kinship in early Irish society: the evidence from the Irish law tracts. Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 37: 133–165.Google Scholar

4. I have suggested and discussed this hypothesis elsewhere: 1991. Cattle-lords and Clansmen: Kinship and Rank in Early Ireland. New York: Garland; forthcoming in second edition by Notre Dame University Press.Google Scholar

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