ISBN:
9781793632388
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (337 pages)
Series Statement:
Anthropology of Kinship and the Family
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Keywords:
Social structure
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Abstract:
Humans organize systems of social ideas through structures of kinship. In Introduction to the Science of Kinship, Murray J. Leaf and Dwight Read describe what those ideas are, how they are used, and what this implies for the science of human social organization.
Abstract:
Cover -- Introduction to the Science of Kinship -- Series Page -- Introduction to the Science of Kinship -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments and Who Did What -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- Positivism Is Not Science -- Science Requires Experiment -- Organizational Ideas and Performances -- Our Larger Theoretical Context -- The Chapters -- Chapter 2 -- The Path to the Kinship Apocalypse -- Lewis Henry Morgan -- The Genealogical Method -- Classifying Terminologies -- G. P. Murdock -- Componential Analysis -- Alliance-Descent -- The Expanded Argument: From Fortes to Homans and Schneider -- The Kinship Apocalypse -- Postapocalyptic Ethnology of Kinship -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 -- Information System, Cultural Systems, Generative Systems -- Theory of Organizations -- Information Systems, Cultural Systems, Generative Systems -- Groups and Organizations -- Cultural Idea Systems -- Social Idea Systems -- Egocentric versus Sociocentric Idea Systems -- Kinship Maps -- Added Ideas -- Technical Idea Systems -- Organizational Charters -- Instantiation -- Individuals -- Making and Expressing Consensus -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 -- Kinship and Biology -- Adaptations before Homo sapiens -- Tools, Diet, and Social Organization -- Sex and Social Organization -- Energy Efficiency and Social Organization -- Face, Brain, and Language -- The Organizational Rubicon of the Upper Paleolithic -- Characteristics of the Upper Paleolithic Revolution -- Self-awareness, the Idea of Self-awareness, and the Idea of Ideas -- Technological Differences and Climate Change -- Logic, Psychology, and Social Organization -- Human Figures and Social Categories -- Music and Time -- Perceiver and Perceived, Subject and Object, Self and Other -- Organizational Pluralism -- Organization and Individual -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5.
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