ISBN:
9780415330138
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (397 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Rethinking Marriage and Kinship
DDC:
301.42/1
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume is concerned with two of the fundamental topics of social anthropology, kinship and marriage, approached from a variety of viewpoints by an international group of contributors of diverse experience and background.〈BR〉 The wide range of subjects examined includes: Incest, epistemology, linguistics, prescriptive alliance and methodology.〈BR〉 Fieldwork from the following countries is drawn on: Burma, Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Australia, Africa and South America
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Prefatory Note; RODNEY NEEDHAM; Introduction; Background; Philosophy; Formalism; Analysis; Wikmunkan; Affect; Prescriptive alliance; The Purum case; Competence and authority; Acknowledgements; 1 RODNEY NEEDHAM; Remarks on the Analysis of Kinship and Marriage; Introduction; Kinship; Marriage; Descent; Terminologies; Incest; Conclusions; 2 MARTIN SOUTHWOLD; Meanings of Kinship; Introduction; The Ganda terminology; What is Kinship?; Kinship and parentation; Social relationship; Parentation and congeniacy; Conclusions
Description / Table of Contents:
3 P. G. RIVIEREMarriage: A Reassessment; Introduction; Functions; Constituents; Relationships; Conclusions; 4 EDMUND LEACH; More about 'Mama and 'Papa'; Introduction; Affect and phonology; Sinhalese; Kachin; Conclusions; 5 FRANCIS KORN; A Question of Preferences: The Iatmul Case; Introduction; Iatmul institutions; Relationship terminology; Rules of marriage; Marriage practices; Bateson's interpretation; Formal analysis of the terminology; Lines and categories; Prescription and alternation; Alliances; Empirical correspondences; Prestations; Preferences; Ideal and variants
Description / Table of Contents:
Preference and structure in Levi-StraussIatmul society and elementary structures; Classification; Method; 6 ANTHONY FORGE; Marriage and Exchange in the Sepik: Comments onFrancis Korn's Analysis of Iatmul Society; Introduction; Symmetrical exchange; Asymmetric marriage; Conclusions; 7 DAVID MCKNIGHT; Some Problems concerning the Wik-mungkan; Introduction; McConnel's analysis and kinship models; Descent lines; Kinship terms; Marriage system; Patterns of behaviour and attitudes; Homans and Schneider's theory; Levi-Strauss's law of the atom of kinship; Conclusions; Postcript; 8 T. O. BEIDELMAN
Description / Table of Contents:
Some Kaguru Notions about Incest and OtherSexual ProhibitionsIntroduction; Prohibitions; Infractions; Folklore; Conclusions; 9 WILLIAM WILDER; Purum Descent Groups: Some Vagaries of Method; Introduction; The Ackerman matrix; Direct exchange?; Purum descent groups; Concluding remarks; 10 JAMES J. FOX; Sister's Child as Plant: Metaphors in an Idiom ofConsanguinity; Introduction; A formulation of the problem; The Rotinese of eastern Indonesia; Determination of the mother's brother (took); Determination of the mother's brother of origin(too-huk)
Description / Table of Contents:
Mother's brother and sister's child: performanceand idiomComments and conclusions; Notes on Contributors; Name Index; Subject Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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