Spheres of Inheritance in Aughnaboy1
- 1 December 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in American Anthropologist
- Vol. 72 (6) , 1378-1388
- https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1970.72.6.02a00100
Abstract
This paper uses the concept of spheres to analyze the transmission of goods between the generations in Aughnaboy. It argues that a concept such as a sphere is necessary to unravel the complex patterns of inheritance in this rural sector of a complex Western industrial society, and it concludes that there are three spheres of inheritance; each sphere distinguished by the movement of different items through different modes of exchange, and each sphere characterized by a distinct ideology and a distinct pattern of flow.Keywords
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