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Cattle Lords and Clansmen: The Social Structure of Early Ireland » (Subsequent)

Authors: Nerys Thomas Patterson
ISBN-13: 9780268008000, ISBN-10: 0268008000
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Date Published: April 1994
Edition: Subsequent

	List of Illustrations
	Preface to the second edition
	Abbreviations
1	Reconstructing Early Irish Society: Sources and Scholarship	3
2	The Development of Early Irish Law and Society	36
3	The Material Context of Social Relations	62
4	The Spatial Organization of Society	89
5	The Seasonal Rhythms of Social Life	118
6	The Political Economy: Clientship	150
7	Rank	181
8	Close Kin and Neighbors: Gelfhine and Comaithches	207
9	The Forms of Irish Kinship	239
10	The Corporate Fine: Control of Economic Action	259
11	Marriage, Sexual Relations, and the Affiliation of Children	288
12	Kinship and the Proto-State	328
	Appendix	368
	Glossary I: Terms for kinship relations	377
	Glossary II: Irish terms	378
	Bibliography	382
	Index	412