520 Pages
by
Routledge
520 Pages
by
Routledge
518 Pages
by
Routledge
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At one time Francis L.K. Hsu put forth a hypothesis on kinship that proposed a functional relationship between particular kinship systems and behavior patterns in particular cultural contexts. The controversy provoked among cultural anthropologists by this hypothesis is reflected in this book, which points the way toward more fruitful investigations of kinship in cultural and psychological... Read more
EDITOR'S PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, 1. A Hypothesis on Kinship and Culture, PART I. THEORETICAL EXPLORATIONS, 2. Notes on the Hsu Hypotheses, 3. Dyad Dominance and Household Maintenance, PART II. ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS, 4. The Suku of the Congo: An Ethnographic Test of Hsu's Hypotheses, 5. Role Dilemmas and Father-Son Dominance in Middle Eastern Kinship Systems, 6. Some Implications of Dominant Kinship Relationships in Fiji and Rotuma, 7. Components of Relationships in the Family: A Mexican Village, 8. Father-Son Dominance: Tikopia and China, 9. Social Relationships in Two Australian Aboriginal Societies of Arnhem Land: Gunwinggu and Murngin, 10. Elders and Youngers in the Nzakara Kingdom, 11. Hsu and the External System, 12. Some Questions About the Hsu Hypothesis As Seen Through Japanese Data, PART III METHODOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS, 13. Sex-Role Identity and Dominant Kinship Relationships, 14. An Examination of Hsu's Brother Brother Postulate in Four East African Societies, PART IV. DEVELOPMENTAL EXPLORATIONS, 15. Bantu Brotherhood: Symmetry, Socialization, and Ultimate Choice in Two Bantu Cultures, 16. Handsome Lake and the Decline of the Iroquois Matriarchate, 17. Ambivalence, Social Structure, and Dominant Kinship Relationships: A Hypothesis, 18. Kinship and the Associational Aspect of Social Structure, 19. Eros, Affec4:, and Pao, CONCLUSION, 20. Kinship, Society, and Culture, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX
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Francis L.K. Hsu
