Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 337 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511896620
Series Statement:
Structural analysis in the social sciences 12
Content:
This collection of articles aims at revitalizing the study of kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. It brings together studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent with investigations of the flow of material resources in societies of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe. Restudies of classic ethnographic cases and fieldwork studies of kinship and exchange demonstrate how the social and material aspects of society are related, and address issues of concern to anthropology and the neighbouring disciplines of history, sociology and economics. This book marks the emergence of an era in the study of kinship and exchange using a productive combination of ethnographic substance with formal methods, one which leaves behind older structural-functionalist and culturalist assumptions
Content:
Revitalizing the study of kinship and exchange with network approaches / Thomas Schweizer and Douglas R. White -- The grapevine forest: kinship, status, and wealth in a Mediterranean community (Selo, Croatia) / Bojka Milicic -- Kinship, property transmission, and stratification in Javanese villages / Douglas R. White and Thomas Schweizer -- Network mediation of exchange structures: ambilateral sidedness and property flows in Pul Eliya (Sri Lanka) / Michael Houseman and Douglas R. White -- Alliance, exchange, and the organization of boat corporations in Lamalera (E. Indonesia) / Robert H. Barnes -- Experiential flexibility of cultural models: kinship knowledge and networks among individual Khasi (Meghalaya, N.E. India) / Monika Böck -- Moral economy and self-interest: kinship, friendship, and exchange among the Pokot (N.W. Kenya) / Michael Bollig -- Risk, uncertainty, and economic exchange in a pastoral community of the Andean highlands (Huancar, N.W. Argentina) / Barbara Göbel -- Wealth transfers occasioned by marriage: a comparative reconsideration / Duran Bell -- Prestations and progeny: the consolidation of well-being among the Bakkarwal of Jammu and Kashmir (western Himalayas) / Aparna Rao -- 'We don't sell our daughters': a report on money and marriage exchange in the township of Larantuka (Flores, E. Indonesia) / Stefan Dietrich -- Applications of the minimum spanning tree problem to network analysis / Per Hage and Frank Harary -- Local rules and global structures: models of exclusive straight sister-exchange / Franklin E. Tjon Sie Fat -- The capacity and constraints of kinship in the development of the Enga Tee ceremonial exchange network (Papua New Guinea highlands) / Polly Wiessner and Akii Tumu -- Between war and peace: gift exchange and commodity barter in the central and fringe highlands of Papua New Guinea / Joachim Görlich
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521590211
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521084741
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521590211
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511896620
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