Author: German V. Dziebel
Publisher: Cambria Press
Keywords: kinship, terminologies, diversity, phenomenon, genius, global
Number of Pages: 568
Published: 2007-12-28
List price: $139.95
ISBN-10: 1934043656
ISBN-13: 9781934043653
This highly acclaimed book brings the cumulative results of a century and a half of kinship studies in anthropology into the focus of current debates on the origin of modern humans in Africa and on an entangled bit of human evolutionary history commonly subsumed under the heading of the "peopling of the Americas." This erudite study is based on a database of some 2,500 kinship vocabularies representing roughly 600 African languages, 140 Australian languages, 500 Austronesian languages, 200 Papuan languages, 350 languages of Eurasia (excluding Indo-Europeans), 440 North and Middle American Indi
Author: Mary Bouquet
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: kinship, british, theory, refractions, portuguese, english, reclaiming
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1993-03
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0719030269
ISBN-13: 9780719030260
Based on questions raised about kinship in teaching English classics to Portuguese students, this book examines, (citing the "Peter Rabbit" stories of Beatrix Potter), how English kinship is often seen as a personal "background", whilst Portuguese kinship may be assessed genealogically.
Author: Dr. J.S. Bhandari
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
Keywords: group, domestic, affinity, kinship
Number of Pages: 345
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 8121203880
ISBN-13: 9788121203883
Author: Jack Goody
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Keywords: kinship, studies, comparative
Published: 1969-06
List price: $39.50
ISBN-10: 0804706786
ISBN-13: 9780804706780
Against the background of the problems involved in the comparative study of human society, the essays in this book show the comparative ideal in practice, which combines elements from both sociology and anthropology. In each essay, specific problems are treated in a way which tests theory against evidence, to replace assertion by demonstration. Topics covered include: · Incest and Adultery · Double descent systems · Inheritance, social change and the boundary problem · Marriage policy · The circulation of women and children in northern Ghana · Indo-European kinship. First published in
Author: Janet Carsten
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: anthropology, departures, new, kinship
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 2003-11-24
List price: $31.99
ISBN-10: 0521665701
ISBN-13: 9780521665704
What is the impact on anthropology of recent studies of reproductive technologies, gender, and the social construction of science in the West? What is the significance of public anxiety about the family to anthropology’s analytic approach? Janet Carsten presents an original view of the past, present, and future of kinship in anthropology which will be of interest to anthropologists as well as to other social scientists.
Author: Linda Stone
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: introduction, gender, kinship
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-07-28
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0813344026
ISBN-13: 9780813344027
Designed for undergraduate courses in kinship, gender, or the two combined, Linda Stone’s Kinship and Gender is the product of years of teaching. The topic of kinship comes alive when linked to gender issues; conversely, the cross-cultural study of gender benefits from a working knowledge of kinship. This essential book successfully merges these two disciplines, demonstrating their relevance to students’ lives and enhancing students’ understanding of other cultures. Fourteen case studies throughout the book illuminate the intricate connections between kinship and gender across a variety
Author: Gary Witherspoon
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: marriage, kinship, navajo
Number of Pages: 145
Published: 1996-12-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0226904180
ISBN-13: 9780226904184
The Navajo are one of the most studied people in the world; yet their social organization is one of the least well understood. In Navajo Kinship and Marriage, Gary Witherspoon, a fluent speaker of the Navajo language who lived among the Navajo for eight years, offers a new theoretical approach to kinship based on its cultural dimensions. Witherspoon makes a primary distinction between culture (patterns for behavior) and the system of social relations (observable patterns of behavior) in this definitive work on Navajo kinship and marriage."Witherspoon . . . clarifies problems pertaining to Nava
