Kinship, Honour, and Solidarity

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719028908
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (289 download)

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Book Synopsis Kinship, Honour, and Solidarity by : Ladislav Holý

Download or read book Kinship, Honour, and Solidarity written by Ladislav Holý and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kinship and Continuity

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9789058230751
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)

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Book Synopsis Kinship and Continuity by : Alison Shaw

Download or read book Kinship and Continuity written by Alison Shaw and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kinship and Continuity is a vivid ethnographic account of the development of the Pakistani presence in Oxford, from after World War II to the present day. Alison Shaw addresses the dynamics of migration, patterns of residence and kinship, ideas about health and illness, and notions of political and religious authority, and discusses the transformations and continuities of the lives of British Pakistanis against the backdrop of rural Pakistan and local socio-economic changes. This is a fully updated, revised edition of the book first published in 1988.

Honor, Patronage, Kinship & Purity

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Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780830815722
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Book Synopsis Honor, Patronage, Kinship & Purity by : David A. deSilva

Download or read book Honor, Patronage, Kinship & Purity written by David A. deSilva and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2000-10-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David A. deSilva demonstrates in this book how paying attention to the cultural themes of honor, patronage, kinship and purity opens us to new facets of the New Testament documents.

Anthropological Perspectives On Kinship

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Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780745309170
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Anthropological Perspectives On Kinship by : Ladislav Holy

Download or read book Anthropological Perspectives On Kinship written by Ladislav Holy and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1996-10-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative introductory text takes into account the changes in the conceptualisation of kinship brought about by new reproductive technologies and the growing interest in culturally specific notions of personhood and gender. Holy considers the extent to which Western assumptions have guided anthropological study of kinship in the past. In the process, he reveals a growing sensitivity on the part of anthropologists to individual ideas of personhood and gender, and encourages further critical reflection on cultural bias in approaches to the subject.

Culture, Creation, and Procreation

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785334867
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Book Synopsis Culture, Creation, and Procreation by : Monika Böck

Download or read book Culture, Creation, and Procreation written by Monika Böck and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As reproduction is seen as central to kinship and the biological link as the primary bond between parents and their offspring, Western perceptions of kin relations are primarily determined by ideas about "consanguinity," "genealogical relations," and "genetic connections." Advocates of cultural constructivism have taken issue with a concept that puts so much stress on heredity as being severely biased by western ideas of kinship. Ethnosociologists in particular developed alternative systems using indigenous categories. This symbolic approach has, however, been rejected by some scholars as plagued by the problems of the analytical separation of ideology from practice, of largely overlooking relations of domination, and of ignoring the questions of shared knowledge and choice. This volume offers a corrective by discussing the constitution of kinship among different communities in South Asia and addressing the relationship between ideology and practice, cultural models, and individiual strategies.

Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691191638
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Book Synopsis Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt by : Eve Krakowski

Download or read book Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt written by Eve Krakowski and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movements of great men. How did women participate in the societies these texts describe? What about non-Muslims, whose own religious traditions descended partly from pre-Islamic late antiquity? Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt approaches these questions through Jewish women’s adolescence in Fatimid and Ayyubid Egypt and Syria (c. 969–1250). Using hundreds of everyday papers preserved in the Cairo Geniza, Eve Krakowski follows the lives of girls from different social classes—rich and poor, secluded and physically mobile—as they prepared to marry and become social adults. She argues that the families on whom these girls depended were more varied, fragmented, and fluid than has been thought. Krakowski also suggests a new approach to religious identity in premodern Islamic societies—and to the history of rabbinic Judaism. Through the lens of women’s coming-of-age, she demonstrates that even Jews who faithfully observed rabbinic law did not always understand the world in rabbinic terms. By tracing the fault lines between rabbinic legal practice and its practitioners’ lives, Krakowski explains how rabbinic Judaism adapted to the Islamic Middle Ages. Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt offers a new way to understand how women took part in premodern Middle Eastern societies, and how families and religious law worked in the medieval Islamic world.

The Middle East

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195346750
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis The Middle East by : Gary S. Gregg

Download or read book The Middle East written by Gary S. Gregg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a decade the Middle East has monopolized news headlines in the West. Journalists and commentators regularly speculate that the region's turmoil may stem from the psychological momentum of its cultural traditions or of a "tribal" or "fatalistic" mentality. Yet few studies of the region's cultural psychology have provided a critical synthesis of psychological research on Middle Eastern societies. Drawing on autobiographies, literary works, ethnographic accounts, and life-history interviews, The Middle East: A Cultural Psychology, offers the first comprehensive summary of psychological writings on the region, reviewing works by psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists that have been written in English, Arabic, and French. Rejecting stereotypical descriptions of the "Arab mind" or "Muslim mentality,' Gary Gregg adopts a life-span- development framework, examining influences on development in infancy, early childhood, late childhood, and adolescence as well as on identity formation in early and mature adulthood. He views patterns of development in the context of recent work in cultural psychology, and compares Middle Eastern patterns less with Western middle class norms than with those described for the region's neighbors: Hindu India, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Mediterranean shore of Europe. The research presented in this volume overwhelmingly suggests that the region's strife stems much less from a stubborn adherence to tradition and resistance to modernity than from widespread frustration with broken promises of modernization--with the slow and halting pace of economic progress and democratization. A sophisticated account of the Middle East's cultural psychology, The Middle East provides students, researchers, policy-makers, and all those interested in the culture and psychology of the region with invaluable insight into the lives, families, and social relationships of Middle Easterners as they struggle to reconcile the lure of Westernized life-styles with traditional values.

Execution by Family

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351240633
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Book Synopsis Execution by Family by : Mark Cooney

Download or read book Execution by Family written by Mark Cooney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across many parts of the world, violence inflicted in the name of family honor is attracting an increasing amount of attention. Family honor violence, otherwise known as honor-based violence, is physical force inflicted primarily on women for conduct defined as dishonorable. This book explores these conflicts of honor, how they are triggered, how they are handled, and why some lead to death. Drawing on a range of case studies and employing Donald Black’s concept of social geometry, Execution by Family incorporates and goes beyond patriarchy, culture, and kinship to develop a unified theory of family honor violence. It discusses the "honor belt," a series of countries stretching from north Africa to southeast Asia, in which similar forms of inequality, patriarchy, group authority, and gerontocracy are prevalent and how, within the confines of this inequality, honor violence flourishes. Reviewing survey data and pointing to a multi-pronged, cross-national social movement, the book also discusses the future of honor-based violence. Given the growing awareness of family honor violence, Execution by Family will be of interest to anybody concerned with family conflict, violence, crime, and popular morality. It will be invaluable reading for academics and students in the fields of criminology, criminal justice, sociology, social psychology, and anthropology.

Sex, Honor, and Power in the Deuteronomistic History

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567324524
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (673 download)

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Book Synopsis Sex, Honor, and Power in the Deuteronomistic History by : Kenneth Stone

Download or read book Sex, Honor, and Power in the Deuteronomistic History written by Kenneth Stone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original work, Stone studies the structure and social presuppositions of several narratives from the Deuteronomistic History in which sexual activity plays a significant role. Both narratological and anthropological tools are utilized in the textual analysis. Stone interestingly notes the link between sexual activity, gender and prestige structures; the emphasis on male contest and female chastity discussed by anthropologists of honour and shame; and the role of the exchange of women in relations between men. In each story, sexual practice is primarily related to male struggles for honour and power.

Law, laity and solidarities

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526148285
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis Law, laity and solidarities by : Pauline Stafford

Download or read book Law, laity and solidarities written by Pauline Stafford and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary focus of this collection by leading medieval historians is the laity, in particular the ideas and ideals of lay people. The contributors explore lay attitudes as expressed in legal cases, charters, chronicles and collective activities. Highlights the centrality of kinship, whilst stressing its limitations as an all purpose social bond. Ranges chronologically and geographically from the seventh century to the eve of the Reformation, from Western Britain to papal and urban Italy, from Carolingian dynastic politics to the decline of medieval pilgrimage in the sixteenth century, and from the courts of twelfth-century France to the fifteenth-century wards of London.

The Problem of Context

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789203902
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Context written by R.M. Dilley and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The apparently simple notion that it is contextualization and invocation of context that give form to our interpretations raises important questions about context definition. Moreover, different disciplines involved in the elucidation and interpretation of meanings construe context indifferent ways. How do these ways differ? And what analytical strategies are adopted in order to suggest that the relevant context is "self-evident"? The notion of context has received less attention than is due such a central, key concept in social anthropology, as well as in other related disciplines. This collection of contributions from a group of leading social anthropologists and anthropological linguists addresses the question of how the idea of context is constructed, invoked, and deployed in the interpretations put forward by social anthropologists. The ethnographic focus embraces peoples from regions such as Bali, Europe, Malawi, and Zaire. Primarily theoretical in its aims, the work also draws on expertise from anthropological linguistics and philosophy in order to set the issue as much in a comparative disciplinary perspective as in a comparative cross-cultural one.

Negotiating Risk

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845458877
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Book Synopsis Negotiating Risk by : Alison Shaw

Download or read book Negotiating Risk written by Alison Shaw and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on fieldwork with British Pakistani clients of a UK genetics service, this book explores the personal and social implications of a ‘genetic diagnosis’. Through case material and comparative discussion, the book identifies practical ethical dilemmas raised by new genetic knowledge and shows how, while being shaped by culture, these issues also cross-cut differences of culture, religion and ethnicity. The book also demonstrates how identifying a population-level elevated ‘risk’ of genetic disorders in an ethnic minority population can reinforce existing social divisions and cultural stereotypes. The book addresses questions about the relationship between genetic risk and clinical practice that will be relevant to health workers and policy makers.

Autonomy

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571818331
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (183 download)

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Book Synopsis Autonomy by : Aparna Rao

Download or read book Autonomy written by Aparna Rao and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of individuality in non-European, and especially South Asian societies is a controversial one. Studies in anthropology and psychology undertaken in recent years on concepts of person and self approach the problem by concentrating on ideologies; the question of practice remains largely neglected. This is the first study to examine the individual-dividual debate empirically from the - emic - perspective of decision making, observed over a two-year period among the Bakkarwal, Himalayan Muslim pastoralists. Of particular significance is the fact that the author bases her approach on the life cycle and on gender and status differences. Aparna Rao is a research associate at the Institut für Völkerkunde, University of Cologne

Kinship Structures and Foster Relations in Islamic Society

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Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Kinship Structures and Foster Relations in Islamic Society written by Balkrishan Shivram and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems

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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739108963
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems by : Douglas White

Download or read book Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems written by Douglas White and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using network visualization and the study of the dynamics of marriage choices, Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems expands the theory of social practice to show how changes in the structure of a society's kinship network affect the development of social cohesion over time. Using the genealogical networks of a Turkish nomad clan, authors Douglas White and Ulla Johansen explore how changes in network cohesion are revealed to be indicative of key processes of social change. This approach alters in fundamental ways the anthropological concepts of social structure, organizational dynamics, social cohesion, marriage strategies, as well as the study of community politics within the dynamics of ongoing personal interaction.

A Different Vision: African American economic thought

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415095907
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (959 download)

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Book Synopsis A Different Vision: African American economic thought by : Thomas D. Boston

Download or read book A Different Vision: African American economic thought written by Thomas D. Boston and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.

Modernity and the Unmaking of Men

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789208637
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Book Synopsis Modernity and the Unmaking of Men by : Violeta Schubert

Download or read book Modernity and the Unmaking of Men written by Violeta Schubert and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to the renewed emphasis on the significance of village studies, this book focuses on aging bachelorhood as a site of intolerable angst when faced with rural depopulation and social precarity. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Macedonian society, the book explores the intersections between modernity, kinship and gender. It argues that as a critical consequence of demographic rupture, changing values and societal shifts, aging bachelorhood illuminates and challenges conceptualizations of performativity and social presence.