Five feuds : an analysis of homicides en Eastern Kentucky in the late nineteenth century.

Kentucky feuds are an example of market-based feuding, one of two major types of feuding. Compensation is not paid for a homicide in regions where a local market system is linked to the world system. Feuding kinship groups in Kentucky struggle to eliminate each other, whereas in regions where compen...

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Main Author: Otterbein, Keith F.
Format: Analitica de revista
Language:English
Published: Arlington American Antropological Association 2000
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