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Rethinking Marriage and Kinship.
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. The wide range of subjects examined includes: Incest, epistemology, lingui...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 of Consanguinity; 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).
- Mother's brother and sister's child: performanceand idiomComments and conclusions; Notes on Contributors; Name Index; Subject Index.