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How kinship systems change : on the dialectics of practice and classification /
"Using some of his landmark publications on kinship, along with a new introduction, chapter and conclusion, Robert Parkin discusses here the changes in kinship terminologies and marriage practices, as well as the dialectics between them. The chapters also focus on a suggested trajectory, linkin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- Part I. Terminological change
- Kinship as classification : towards a paradigm of change
- Terminology and alliance in India : tribal systems and the North-South problem
- From Tetradic society to dispersed alliance
- Why do societies abandon cross-cousin marriage?
- Dravidian and Iroquois in South Asia
- Indo-European kinship terminologies in Europe : trajectories of change
- Part II. Crow-Omaha
- On the origin of Crow-Omaha terminologies
- Substitutability of kin and the Crow-Omaha problem
- The evolution of kinship terminologies : non-prescriptive forms of asymmetric alliance in Indonesia
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Appendix
- Publications on kinship by Robert Parkin.