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Author : Mary Ruth Northrop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Some Problems in the Comparison of Kinship Systems written by Mary Ruth Northrop and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Goody
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415330107
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Comparative Studies in Kinship written by Jack Goody and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the background of the problems involved in the comparative study of human society, the essays in this book show the comparative ideal in practice, which combines elements from both sociology and anthropology. In each essay, specific problems are treated in a way which tests theory against evidence, to replace assertion by demonstration. Topics covered include: - Incest and Adultery - Double descent systems - Inheritance, social change and the boundary problem - Marriage policy - The circulation of women and children in northern Ghana - Indo-European kinship. First published in 1969.
Author : Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816507902
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Crow-Omaha written by Thomas R. Trautmann and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “Crow-Omaha problem” has perplexed anthropologists since it was first described by Lewis Henry Morgan in 1871. During his worldwide survey of kinship systems, Morgan learned with astonishment that some Native American societies call some relatives of different generations by the same terms. Why? Intergenerational “skewing” in what came to be named “Crow” and “Omaha” systems has provoked a wealth of anthropological arguments, from Rivers to Radcliffe-Brown, from Lowie to Lévi-Strauss, and many more. Crow-Omaha systems, it turns out, are both uncommon and yet found distributed around the world. For anthropologists, cracking the Crow-Omaha problem is critical to understanding how social systems transform from one type into another, both historically in particular settings and evolutionarily in the broader sweep of human relations. This volume examines the Crow-Omaha problem from a variety of perspectives—historical, linguistic, formalist, structuralist, culturalist, evolutionary, and phylogenetic. It focuses on the regions where Crow-Omaha systems occur: Native North America, Amazonia, West Africa, Northeast and East Africa, aboriginal Australia, northeast India, and the Tibeto-Burman area. The international roster of authors includes leading experts in their fields. The book offers a state-of-the-art assessment of Crow-Omaha kinship and carries forward the work of the landmark volume Transformations of Kinship, published in 1998. Intended for students and scholars alike, it is composed of brief, accessible chapters that respect the complexity of the ideas while presenting them clearly. The work serves as both a new benchmark in the explanation of kinship systems and an introduction to kinship studies for a new generation of students. Series Note: Formerly titled Amerind Studies in Archaeology, this series has recently been expanded and retitled Amerind Studies in Anthropology to incorporate a high quality and number of anthropology titles coming in to the series in addition to those in archaeology.
Author : William Wilder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (969 download)
Download or read book Problems in Comparison of Kinship Systems in Island Southeast Asia written by William Wilder and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard Farber
Publisher : New York : Wiley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Comparative Kinship Systems written by Bernard Farber and published by New York : Wiley. This book was released on 1968 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : 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 : Adam Kuper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134450842
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book The Social Science Encyclopedia written by Adam Kuper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Science Encyclopedia, first published in 1985 to acclaim from social scientists, librarians and students, was thoroughly revised in 1996, when reviewers began to describe it as a classic. This third edition has been radically recast. Over half the entries are new or have been entirely rewritten, and most of the balance have been substantially revised. Written by an international team of contributors, the Encyclopedia offers a global perspective on the key issues within the social sciences. Some 500 entries cover a variety of enduring and newly vital areas of study and research methods. Experts review theoretical debates from neo-evolutionism and rational choice theory to poststructuralism, and address the great questions that cut across the social sciences. What is the influence of genes on behaviour? What is the nature of consciousness and cognition? What are the causes of poverty and wealth? What are the roots of conflict, wars, revolutions and genocidal violence? This authoritative reference work is aimed at anyone with a serious interest in contemporary academic thinking about the individual in society.
Author : Robin Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521278232
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (782 download)
Download or read book Kinship and Marriage written by Robin Fox and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New paperback edition of Robin Fox's study of systems of kinship and alliance, which has become an established classic of social science literature.
Author : Josephine Eleanor Moikobu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (789 download)
Download or read book The Theoretical Comparative Study of Approaches to Kinship Systems written by Josephine Eleanor Moikobu and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melvin Ember
Publisher : [New Haven, Conn.] : HRAF Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Marriage, Family, and Kinship written by Melvin Ember and published by [New Haven, Conn.] : HRAF Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Patrick McConvell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781607812449
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Kinship Systems written by Patrick McConvell and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kinship systems are the glue that holds social groups together. This volume presents a novel approach to understanding the genesis of these systems and how and why they change. The editors bring together experts from the disciplines of anthropology and linguistics to explore kinship in societies around the world and to reconstruct kinship in ancient times. Kinship Systems presents evidence of renewed activity and advances in this field in recent years which will contribute to the current interdisciplinary focus on the evolution of society. While all continents are touched on in this book, there is special emphasis on Australian indigenous societies, which have been a source of fascination in kinship studies. One key argument in the book is that linguistic evidence for reconstruction of ancient terminologies can provide strong independent evidence to complement anthropologists' notions of structural kinship transformations and ground them in actual historical and geographical contexts. There are principles that we all share, no matter what kind of society we live in, and these provide a common “language” for anthropology and linguistics. With this language we can accurately compare how family relations are organized in different societies, as well as how we talk about such relations. Because this concept has often been denied by the trajectories in anthropology over the last few decades, Kinship Systems represents a reassertion of, and advances on, classical kinship theory and methods. Innovations and interdisciplinary methods are described by the originators of the new approaches and other leading regional experts.
Author : Marshall Sahlins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226925137
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book What Kinship Is-And Is Not written by Marshall Sahlins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Aristotle and Lévy- Bruhl to Émile Durkheim and David Schneider, and communities from the Maori and the English to the Korowai of New Guinea, he draws on a breadth of theory and a range of ethnographic examples to form an acute definition of kinship, what he calls the “mutuality of being.” Kinfolk are persons who are parts of one another to the extent that what happens to one is felt by the other. Meaningfully and emotionally, relatives live each other’s lives and die each other’s deaths. In the second part of his essay, Sahlins shows that mutuality of being is a symbolic notion of belonging, not a biological connection by “blood.” Quite apart from relations of birth, people may become kin in ways ranging from sharing the same name or the same food to helping each other survive the perils of the high seas. In a groundbreaking argument, he demonstrates that even where kinship is reckoned from births, it is because the wider kindred or the clan ancestors are already involved in procreation, so that the notion of birth is meaningfully dependent on kinship rather than kinship on birth. By formulating this reversal, Sahlins identifies what kinship truly is: not nature, but culture.
Author : Linda Stone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429871651
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Kinship and Gender written by Linda Stone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does kinship still matter in today’s globalized, increasingly mobile world? Do family structures continue to influence the varied roles that men and women play in different cultures? Answering with a resounding ‘yes!’, Linda Stone and Diane E. King offer a lively introduction to and working knowledge of kinship. They firmly link these concepts to cross-cultural gender studies, illuminating the malleable nature of gender roles around the world and over time. Written to engage students, each chapter in Kinship and Gender provides key terms and useful generalizations gleaned through research on the interplay of kinship and gender in both traditional societies and contemporary communities. Detailed case studies and cross-cultural examples help students understand how such generalizations are experienced in real life. The authors also consider the ramifications of current social problems and recent developments in reproductive technology as they demonstrate the relevance of kinship and gender to students’ lives. The fully-revised sixth edition contains new case studies on foster parenting in the United States and on domestic violence. It provides new material on pets as family members and an expanded discussion of the concept of lineal masculinity. There is also a comparison of the adoption of new reproductive technologies in Israel with other countries, along with a discussion of the issue of transnational movements in the use of these technologies.
Author : Martin G. Silverman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Kinship written by Martin G. Silverman and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes references to Aboriginal kinship systems.
Author : Thomas Earl Voorhees
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Formal Analysis and Comparison of Yuman Kinship Systems written by Thomas Earl Voorhees and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
