ISBN:
9781317346968
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Kinship in Action : Self and Group
DDC:
306.83
Keywords:
Families
;
Kinship
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
For courses in Social Organization, Kinship, and Cultural Ecology.Kinship has made a come-back in Anthropology. Not only is there a line of noted, general, introductory works and readers in the topic, but theoretical discussions have been stimulated both by technological changes in mechanisms of reproduction and by reconsiderations of how to define kinship in the most productive ways for cross-cultural comparisons.In addition, kinship studies have moved away from the minutiae of kin terminological systems and the "kinship algebra" often associated with these, to the broader analysis of proces
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Chapter 1 Introduction; Early Studies; The Revival of Kinship Studies; What Is Kinship?; Mobilizing Kin; Family; Marriage; The Fair Maid of Perth; Conclusion; Questions to Consider; Notes; Chapter 2 Life Cycles; Life Cycle and Family: Basic Concepts; Marking Birth and Making Identities; Names and Namings; Maturation; Conclusion; Questions to Consider; Notes; Chapter 3 Concepts in Reproduction; Birth and Social Reproduction; Trobriand Concepts of Reproduction
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 7 Euro-American Kinship: A Diversity of ExamplesAppalachian Valley, United States; Newcastle, Australia; Tory Island, Ireland; The Sarakatsani, Greece; Conclusions; Questions to Consider; Notes; Reference; Chapter 8 Conclusions: Issues of Change and Continuity; Robin Fox: Reproduction and Succession; A Continuum of Themes: From Reproductive Technology to Lesbian Motherhood; A. F. Robertson: Beyond the Family; Reissuing and Reframing Definitions: Ideology and Practice; Relatives and Relatedness: Substance as a Key; Filiation, Affiliation, Sociality: Reworking Pacific Models of Kinship
Description / Table of Contents:
ConclusionQuestions to Consider; Notes; References; Appendix 1 Kinship Terminologies; Appendix 2 Incest and Exogamy: Sex Is Good to Prohibit; Appendix 3 Further Readings; Name Index; Subject Index
Description / Table of Contents:
Ideas of Reproduction and Social StructureLegal Contexts; New Reproductive Technology; Adoption; Conclusions; Questions to Consider; Notes; References; Chapter 4 Groups; The Scottish Clan: A Complex Case; Cognatic Groups among the Duna; Clanship and Exchange: Other Cases from the New Guinea Highlands; Self, Group, and Personhood; Other Cases, Other Types; Matriliny among the Tolai; Other Cases, Other Types; Bilateral Kindreds among the Iban; Conclusions; Questions to Consider; Notes; Reference; Chapter 5 Structures of Marriage; Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea; Huaulu, Eastern Indonesia
Description / Table of Contents:
The Business of Marriage in TelefominRuth Craig's Early Account of Telefomin Marriage; Exchange Relations and Intergenerational Continuity: Wiru and Duna; The Category of "Polyandry"; Marriage, Filiation, and Descent: The Na People of China; Cousin Marriage Systems; Conclusions; Questions to Consider; Notes; Reference; Chapter 6 Euro-American Kinship: Concepts and History; "The Family"; Historical Factors: Households, Property, and Inheritance; Influences of the Church; Contemporary Cases: David Schneider on American Kinship; Conclusions; Questions to Consider; Notes; Reference
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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