Andrew Strathern, Pamela J Stewart

Kinship in Action (eBook, PDF)

Self and Group

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

For courses in Social Organization, Kinship, and Cultural Ecology.Kinship has made a come-back in Anthropology. Not only is there a line of noted, general, introductory works and readers in the topic, but theoretical discussions have been stimulated both by technological changes in mechanisms of reproduction and by reconsiderations of how to define kinship in the most productive ways for cross-cultural comparisons.
In addition, kinship studies have moved away from the minutiae of kin terminological systems and the "kinship algebra" often associated with these, to the broader analysis of processes, historical changes and fundamental cultural meanings in which kin relationships are implicated. In this changed, and changing context both Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- both of the University of Pittsburgh -- bring together a number of interests and concerns, in order to provide pointers for students, as well as scholars, in this field of study.
Taking an explicitly processual approach, the authors examine definitions of terms such as kinship itself, approach the topic in a way that is invariably ethnographic, and deploy materials from field areas where they themselves have worked.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317346975
• Artikelnr.: 43404562

Autorenporträt

Andrew Strathern, ; Stewart, Pamela J

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter one:INTRODUCTION. KINSHIP in ACTION: SELF and GROUPChapter two:LIFE
CYCLESChapter three:CONCEPTS in REPRODUCTIONChapter Four:GROUPSChapter
Five:STRUCTURES OF MARRIAGEChapter Six (1)EURO-AMERICAN KINSHIPCONCEPTS and
HISTORYChapter SevenEURO-AMERICAN KINSHIP (2):A DIVERSITY OF
EXAMPLESChapter EightCONCLUSIONS: ISSUES OF CHANGE AND CONTINUITYAppendix
One: Kinship TerminologiesAppendix Two: Incest and Exogamy: Sex is Good to
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