1st Edition
Dividends of Kinship Meanings and Uses of Social Relatedness
Edited By Peter P. Schweitzer
Copyright 2000
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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This collection reaffirms the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthropology. The contributors examine both the benefits and burdens of kinship across cultures and explore how 'relatedness' is inextricably linked with other concepts which define people's identities - such as gender, power and history. With examples from a wide range of areas including... Read more
Notes on contributors, Preface, 1 Introduction, 2 Choosing kin: sharing and subsistence in a Greenlandic hunting community, 3 Power and kinship in Shuar and Achuar society, 4 On the importance of being the last one: inheritance and marriage in an Austrian peasant community, 5 Kinship, reciprocity and the world market, 6 Is blood thicker than economic interest in familial enterprises?, 7 ‘Philoprogenitiveness’ through the cracks: on the resilience and benefits of kinship in Utopian communes, 8 Concluding remarks, Index
Biography
Peter P. Schweitzer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Lecturer at the University of Vienna
