ism in France.

Inheritance, a volume of essays from the 1974 Past and Present Conference on the family. Goody’s introduction to the volume puts family history into the context of the analysis of inheritance systems. So-cial historians have long studied inherit-ance patterns, but that inquiry and family history have gone on in nearly total isola-tion from each other. Goody notes that in-heritance is not only the means by which the reproduction of the social system is carried out (in so far as that system is linked to property, including the ownership of the means by which man obtains his livelihood); it is also the way in which inter