1st Edition

Kinship in Action Self and Group

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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 ProhibitIndex

Biography

Andrew Strathern, ; Stewart, Pamela J