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Author : Daniel A. Grossman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465305785
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Nonunilineal Descent Groups written by Daniel A. Grossman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: none
Author : Ward H. Goodenough
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521237406
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology written by Ward H. Goodenough and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1980 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are different cultures to be described and compared? This book provides a clear and concise discussion of the theoretical issues involved in ethnographic description and comparative study. Taking up the classic problems in the study of of social organisation, Professor Goodenough describes the major issues in the cross-cultural study of kinship and the family, revealing the kinds of constants, both formal and functional, on which such study must be based. The result is new definitions of marriage, family and parenthood for use in cross-cultural analysis and a greater understanding of this form of analysis itself. The statement on the interdependence of description and comparison in cultural anthropology and its implications for a science of culture, provides fresh insights into cross-cultural analysis for both the theoretical and the practical anthropologist.
Author : Linda Stone
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459623916
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Kinship and Gender written by Linda Stone and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for undergraduate courses in kinship, gender, or the two combined, Linda Stone's Kinship and Gender is the product of years of teaching. The topic of kinship comes alive when linked to gender issues; conversely, the cross-cultural study o...
Author : Bradley E. Ensor
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816530548
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of Kinship written by Bradley E. Ensor and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bradley Ensor shows how kinship can be a valuable tool for archaeologists. The Archaeology of Kinship explains how kinship is relevant to contemporary archaeological theory, detailing methods appropriate for archaeological analysis, and provides long-overdue solutions to problems plaguing ethnological hypotheses on the origins and contexts of kinship behaviors"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Alfred Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351522663
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology written by Alfred Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures are intended to commemorate both the man and his work the latter being viewed as having provided an admirably broad and substantial base for anthropologists of later generations to build upon, as they have done and continue to do in diverse ways. Professor Goodenough's work, in the past and in this book particularly, emphasizes the vitality and fruitfulness of Morgan's contributions. Not only do these lectures carry forward Morgan's interests in kinship; they reflect as well his concern for comparative studies undertaken with the aim of ultimately understanding mankind. Moreover, Professor Goodenough has elucidated recent developments in the collection, analysis, and presentation of cultural data in ways that make it easier for all of us to see how his methods (in themselves specialized) can broaden and deepen our understanding of culture and of man. Morgan, himself a pioneer in method, would surely have been an attentive auditor-and discussant-at Professor Goodenough's Lectures, and in his seminars and the less formal events in which he participated while at Rochester, and to which he contributed so much. This volume is an expanded version of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures delivered at the University of Rochester, April 2 to 11, 1968. Alfred Harris was a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Rochester. He served as the chair of the anthropology from 1964-1971 and he was well known for being the editor of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures.
Author : Jean Besson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807854099
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Martha Brae's Two Histories written by Jean Besson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on historical research and more than thirty years of anthropological fieldwork, this wide-ranging study underlines the importance of Caribbean cultures for anthropology, which has generally marginalized Europe's oldest colonial sphere. Located at
Author : David Murray Schneider
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472080519
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book A Critique of the Study of Kinship written by David Murray Schneider and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schneider views kinship study as a product of Western bias and challenges its use as the universal measure of the study of social structure
Author : David B. Kronenfeld
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252055845
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Fanti Kinship and the Analysis of Kinship Terminologies written by David B. Kronenfeld and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Fanti kinship terminology from a variety of analytic and formal perspectives. Based on work with a broad number of informants, David B. Kronenfeld details and analyzes internal variation in usage within the Fanti community, shows the relationship between terminology and social groups and communicative usage, and relates these findings to major theoretical work on kinship and on the intersections of language, thought, and culture. The terminological analysis in this study employs a great variety of formal approaches, assesses the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, and covers a wide range of types of usage. This work also performs a systematic, formal analysis of behavior patterns among kin, joining this approach with the analysis of a kinship terminological system. Rather than treating kinship terminology as a special, isolated piece of culture, this study also ties its analysis to more general semantic and cultural theoretical issues. Including computational and comparative studies of kinship terminologies, this volume represents the fullest analysis of any kinship terminological system in the ethnographic record.
Author : Bernard Farber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kinship and Family Organization written by Bernard Farber and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Borofsky
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824881966
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Developments in Polynesian Ethnology written by Robert Borofsky and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development in Polynesian Ethnology assesses the current state of anthropological research in Polynesia by examining the debates and issues that shape the discipline today. What have anthropologists achieved? What concerns now dominate discussion? Where is Polynesian anthropology headed? In a series of provocative and original essays, leading scholars examine prehistory, social organization, socialization and character development, mana and tapu, chieftainship, art and aesthetics, and early contact. Together these essays show how history, anthropology, and archaeology have combined to give a broad understanding of Polynesian societies developing over time--how they represent a blend of modernity and tradition, continuity and change. This book is both an introduction to Polynesia for interested students and a thought-provoking synthesis for scholars charting new directions and posing possibilities for future research. Scholars outside Polynesian studies will find the perspectives it offers important and its comprehensive bibliography an invaluable resource.
Author : Harold W Scheffler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429980051
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Filiation And Affiliation written by Harold W Scheffler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Announcements in the 1970s and 1980s of the death of kinship and descent as subjects of anthropological study were highly premature. These subjects continue routinely to be encountered in the course of empirical ethnographic research and to be reported upon in ethnographies ? or they are ignored at the peril of ethnographers pathetically unprepared to deal with them. Moreover, considerable evidence has accumulated that systems of social relations built on relations of genealogical connection exhibit a remarkable degree of orderliness about which it is possible already to make a number of substantial empirical generalizations, especially about the qualities of social relations within and between groups. As the masters of the subject always stressed, kinship and political and jural organization are closely interdependent structures. In this wide-ranging theoretical and comparative-ethnographic study, Harold Scheffler demonstrates that there is a simple reason why detection of this order has been too long delayed and has given rise to more destructive than to constructive debate in social anthropology.
Author : Michel Verdon
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803819537
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Towards an Operational Social Anthropology written by Michel Verdon and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology's original's aim, that of Maine and Morgan in the second half of the nineteenth-century, was to explain social variability. Behind that variability, anthropologists searched for regularities that a theory would explain. It was thus both comparative and positivist (aiming to be scientific). The first theory to emerge was evolutionism. It was soon followed by functional structuralism, structuralism and all the other 'isms' that came after. In the final analysis, unlike scientific theories, all these 'theories' did not supplant one another but merely agglutinated. The original project of a comparative and positivist anthropology thus completely failed, and the new gurus explain it by the very nature of anthropology's subject, human beings in society, which they claim are not amenable to scientific discourse. In this first of two books, Professor Michel Verdon rejects this defeatist explanation. To him, the failure does not stem from anthropology's 'objects' but from the knowing subject. The explanation lies in the process of knowing; it is epistemological, and he finds the ultimate reason in the 'cosmology' that underlies all theories, and that no one has hitherto explored. This enables him completely to upturn the traditional wisdom: it is this implicit cosmology that radically hinders any conceptual rigour in the study of social organization since it defines groups in a way that makes them ontologically variable. In the light of this unique diagnosis he can define a new language, which he labels 'operational', that yields rigourous comparisons leading to refutable and rectifiable theories. In a second book that will soon follow, he applies this language to a number of ethnographies and draws from them astonishing conclusions about societies traditionally studied by anthropology.
Author : Richley H. Crapo
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cultural Anthropology written by Richley H. Crapo and published by McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. This book was released on 1990 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel A. Grossman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781465386755
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Nonunilineal Descent Groups written by Daniel A. Grossman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: none
Author : Ben R. Finney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351487140
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Tahiti written by Ben R. Finney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Polynesian island of Tahiti is in the imagination an island paradise, an idyllic world inhabited by noble savages, carefree and uncomplicated. Tahiti separates myth from reality. Finney describes and analyzes the forces of change that have confronted Tahiti and its inhabitants in the modern world. As the author notes in the introduction, "Neither isolation in the South Pacific, nor the romantic aura invested in them by philosophers and escapists of the West, has saved Tahitians from intense involvement in the twin processes of industrialization and urbanization." This study of Tahitian life concentrates upon two different communities. One is a peasant community moving from subsistence farming to an increased reliance upon the production of cash crops. The other is a proletarian community whose members were at the time abandoning farming and fishing in favor of wage labor. Finney compares the two contemporaneous communities, enabling him to define different but interrelated variables of the economic and social change. These are responsible for Tahiti's evolution from a subsistence oriented peasant life to a life based increasingly on cash crops and wage labor. What happens to family life, work patterns, land use, and other traditional modes of social organization when a small, underdeveloped society is confronted with economic forces largely beyond its control? In dealing with this question as it applies to Tahiti, Finney makes an important contribution to our understanding of how modernization affects a society once thought to be outside the boundaries of the modern world. A major study in English of the socio-economic forces at work in Tahiti, this book provides the reader with both an understanding of the changing nature of Tahitian life, and the reactions of Tahitians to such changes.
Author : Stephan Palmié
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870499036
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery written by Stephan Palmié and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians and anthropologists focus on the cultural dimensions of slavery in various geographical and historical settings. They deal with conceptual and theoretical problems in current slavery studies, as well as issues including Native American slaveholding; the integration of former slaves into West African societies; slave life on Caribbean sugar plantations; slave cultures in Suriname; female slave-owners on the Gold Coast; and Maroon communities. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : George A. Collier
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292771568
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Fields of the Tzotzil written by George A. Collier and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fields of the Tzotzil is the first study of social processes in contemporary highland Maya communities to encompass a regional view of the highlands of Chiapas as a system. In viewing tradition, not as a survival of traits, but as a dynamic process of adaptation by local systems to their placement in larger social and economic systems, it lays to rest the theory that tribal peoples apparently are politically and economically isolated. In addition, its broad regional perspective sheds light on the problems of understanding the position of traditional ethnic groups in contemporary society. The approach of the book is ecological in two senses. First, all the topics dealt with concern the traditional behavior of Indian groups as revealed in their relationship to the land. Second, the analysis seeks out factors that condition land use, not just locally, but as part of a larger system that includes influences of the market and the impact of nationalist agrarian policy. Thus, the author examines land inheritance patterns and food production, as well as the interethnic relations in the region in which Indians are subordinate to mestizos. He discusses in detail corn farming, craft specialization, wage labor, and Indian colonization efforts under the Mexican ejido—all factors that directly affect land use and are thus part of the environment in highland Chiapas. The study is unique in its use of previously inaccessible historical source material and its use of novel methodological aids. Aerial photography was used in data collection, and the computer was used in ethnographic census analysis. The result is a book that reveals the Indian groups of Chiapas as apparent enclaves whose ethnicity is a dynamic, adaptive response to their position of marginal dependency. While their plight is extreme, it is nevertheless structurally similar to the position of ethnic groups in most large social systems.
