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Adoption in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Jack Goody
Jack Goody
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St. John's College, Cambridge
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Adoption plays a major part in the traditional law of many Eurasian societies. It occupies a large portion of Mayne's Treatise on Hindu Law and Usage (1878). The Babylonian code of Hammu-rabi, the oldest comprehensive set of written laws, gives a prominent position to ‘Adoption and Wet-nursing’ (Driver and Miles, 1952: 383–406). And the institution receives the same kind of attention in the law of China, Greece and Ancient Rome. Theoretically it has been of central importance in the writings of Sir Henry Maine and Fustel de Coulanges, where it is linked to the perpetuation of corporations of agnates over time.

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Inheritance and Descent
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , January 1969 , pp. 55 - 78
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1969

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