Partible paternity and anthropological theory : the construction of an ethnographic fantasy /
Partible Paternity and Anthropological Theory discusses the conception "partible paternity" within Amazonian Indian communities. "Partible paternity" is the idea that several sexual acts are necessary to produce a fetus and that the mother may havethese with several men, who in t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
University Press of America,
©2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Three primitivist projects
- The grand claims of Beckerman and Valentine
- The northwest Amazon cases
- Other pertinent cases : general considerations
- Evidence re focality in kin classification simpliciter
- Evidence re focality in kin classification stemming from partible paternity
- Evidence re the residential and symbolic isolation of the sexually bonded pair and dependent offspring
- Evidence re sexual jealousy
- Evidence re the denigration of women
- Miscellaneous evidence
- Conclusion.